Attained Quotes
394 quotes by 293 authors
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
— Plautus
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by…
— Arnold Bennett
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For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
— Homer
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Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
— Edward Bellamy
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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the…
— Robert E. Lee
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I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with…
— Alex Rodriguez
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
— D. A. Carson
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When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the…
— Gautama Buddha
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If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal…
— Rajiv Mehrotra
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Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way…
— Gautama Buddha
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I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires,…
— Philip Gulley
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Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night…
— Glenda Green
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If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that…
— Richard Heinberg
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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the…
— Giacomo Casanova
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The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through…
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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