Attainment Quotes

209 Attainment quotes by 177 unique authors

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
In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able… — John Daido Loori
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and… — Ludwig von Mises
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their… — H. L. Mencken
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief… — Samuel Johnson
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality. — Sivananda
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. — Shunryu Suzuki
I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes… — Cordell Hull
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic… — David Brainerd
Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a… — George Cayley
Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly… — Charles Lindbergh
Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see… — P D Ouspensky
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the… — Thomas Huxley
All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want… — Neville Goddard
By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural… — Dean L. Larsen

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