You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could… — Michele Flournoy Copy Share Image
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. — James J. Corbett Copy Share Image