Attaining Quotes

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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. — Brian Greene
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed… — Herbert Hoover
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people… — Jay-Z
Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal… — Jeffrey Kluger
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. — Horace Mann
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness… — Adam Weishaupt
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural… — Martin Filler
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others… — Confucius
We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be… — Harry S. Truman
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth. — Douglas Coupland
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our… — Gretchen Rubin
Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be… — Robert M. Hutchins
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects… — Brigham Young
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult… — Viktor E. Frankl
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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