Attainment Quotes

209 Attainment quotes by 177 unique authors

The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. — Pierre Trudeau
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till… — Alfred North Whitehead
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the… — Izaak Walton
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. — Mahatma Gandhi
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. — Bryant H. McGill
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without… — Alex Haley
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most… — Lionel Shriver
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look… — Donald Barthelme
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in… — Baroness Orczy
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she… — Garth Stein
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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