Attain Quotes
688 quotes by 485 authors
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop…
— Dogen
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If you want to attain peace, live peacefully
— Gil Fronsdal
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them…
— William James
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When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into…
— Neville Goddard
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
— Don DeLillo
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The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million…
— Anais Nin
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Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
— Anne Shirley
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You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do
— Roger McDonald
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to…
— Thomas a Kempis
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable…
— William Harvey
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You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain…
— Carlos E. Asay
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I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly…
— William Allingham
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For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some…
— Thomas Merton
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The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get…
— Stirling Moss
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Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time,…
— Ken Wilber
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How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your…
— Wilhelm Reich
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God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps…
— Vincent de Paul
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