It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace. — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid… — Gertrude Mongella Copy Share Image
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest. — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief. — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
