Attain Quotes

688 Attain quotes by 485 unique authors

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy… — Ambrose Bierce
Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his… — John of Kronstadt
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible. — August Strindberg
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that… — Samuel Johnson
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the… — Swami Vivekananda
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are… — Neville Goddard
The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it… — Alan Watts
To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from… — Alberto Villoldo
I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally… — John Wooden
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it… — Rowan Williams
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square… — Lawrence Hargrave
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene,… — Maria Montessori
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and… — Joseph Weizenbaum
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire. — John of the Cross
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject… — William James
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle… — Mary Wollstonecraft
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is… — Chris Hedges
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and… — Plato
It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much… — Paramahansa Yogananda
We can program ourselves to be the person we want to be, whatever the subject matter is, live in it by a mental physical program… — Michael Jackson
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing… — Branch Rickey
Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance. — Swami Vivekananda

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