Contentment Quote by Abraham Cowley

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

— Ang Lee

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

— Giles of Assisi

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

— Charles Peguy

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul…

— Plato

“He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no…

— Jack London