Attain Quotes

688 Attain quotes by 485 unique authors

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or… — Muriel Barbery
Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never… — Madeleine L'Engle
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer… — Haruki Murakami
Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking… — Franz Kafka
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with… — Saint Augustine
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be… — N. T. Wright
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing… — Mark Twain
A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his… — Confucius
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves… — G I Gurdjieff
...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his… — Dallin H. Oaks
Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast… — David Mitchell
In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." -… — Karen Marie Moning
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have… — James C. Collins
Each person has the potential of making a positive impact on the world. It all depends on what you do with what you have. Success… — Gary Chapman
If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is… — Marianne Williamson
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to… — Cornelius Van Til
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if… — Oscar Wilde
One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must… — Ramakrishna
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed… — Mahatma Gandhi
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of… — Edward Norton
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They… — Henry Ford
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else. — Quentin Crisp
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The… — Unknown Author

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