Attainment Quotes

209 Attainment quotes by 177 unique authors

The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,… — Unknown Author
Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments. — Thomas Merton
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of… — Rudolf Steiner
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that… — Dan Millman
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by… — Meher Baba
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. — Carl Jung
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us… — Corinne Heline
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt
...There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again... — Saint Francis de Sales
We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic… — Sri Aurobindo
The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth… — Dalai Lama
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try… — Ernest Hemingway
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love… — Will Ferguson
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way — Havelock Ellis
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

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