Attainment Quotes

209 quotes by 177 authors

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with… — Jean de la Bruyere
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of… — Henry David Thoreau
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the… — Alexander Hamilton
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by… — Samuel Johnson
Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills… — Pat McCrory
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the… — William A. Clark
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain,… — Robert Collier
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater… — Arthur C. Clarke
Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment.… — Laozi
It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this… — Plato
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no… — Gangaji
Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in… — Unknown Author
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
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the… — John Ruskin
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as… — Naomi Wolf
The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment.… — Eckhart Tolle
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the… — Kwame Nkrumah

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