Attain Quotes

688 Attain quotes by 485 unique authors

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous. — Soren Kierkegaard
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours. — Muhammad Yunus
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is… — Emile Durkheim
If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. — John Bunyan
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength… — Lech Walesa
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? — John Green
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a… — Mahatma Gandhi
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. — H. P. Blavatsky
In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this… — Dogen
It's important to come to know that this is all there is. There isn't something to attain, there is only something to be. — Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace — Gautama Buddha
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and… — Gautama Buddha
The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening. — Gautama Buddha
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain… — Robert Thurman
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil… — Ignatius of Antioch
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to… — Unknown Author
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. — Unknown Author
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate… — Timothy Keller
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do… — Gautama Buddha
Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its… — Stephen Mitchell
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human… — Ellen Terry

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