Attainment Quotes
209 Attainment quotes by 177 unique authors
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When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask…
— Richard G. Scott
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What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love…
— Josef Pieper
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I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
— Aldo Leopold
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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
— Alan Watts
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The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
— Ed Bliss
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by…
— David Hume
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
— Stanley Baldwin
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In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and…
— Pope John XXIII
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The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is…
— Michael Novak
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A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only…
— R. H. Tawney
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When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment…
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
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The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate…
— James Stephens
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It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary…
— Max Heindel
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However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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