Attainment Quotes

209 Attainment quotes by 177 unique authors

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. — Thomas Huxley
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On… — John Quincy Adams
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. — Pablo Neruda
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… — David McCullough
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they… — Ludwig von Mises
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with… — Nathanael Emmons
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and… — Bernard of Clairvaux
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. — Thomas Carlyle
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But… — Norman Vincent Peale
To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential. Many people fail at this vital point. The goal must… — Norman Vincent Peale
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

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