Attain Quotes

688 Attain quotes by 485 unique authors

Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just… — Hongzhi Zhengjue
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the… — Christmas Humphreys
Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able… — Christian Wiman
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain. — Edgar Guest
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject… — Charles Caleb Colton
The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should… — Arjun Rampal
We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt… — Ruben Papian
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful… — Thomas Frank
All that spirits desire, spirits attain. — Khalil Gibran
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. — Wayne Dyer
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of… — Mary Baker Eddy
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits… — Joshua Foer
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. — David Hume
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. — William James
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art… — Samuel Johnson
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. — Soren Kierkegaard
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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