Attains Quotes
102 Attains quotes by 81 unique authors
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For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
— Euripides
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There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy…
— Swami Vivekananda
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All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.
— Teresa of Avila
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It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good
— Swami Vivekananda
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A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he…
— Chanakya
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The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only…
— Swami Vivekananda
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According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by…
— Neel Burton
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
— Bill Watterson
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It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such…
— John Calvin
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
— Octave Mirbeau
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner…
— Kobayashi Issa
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TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to…
— Saint Augustine
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
— Oscar Wilde
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as…
— Kabir
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God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
— Teresa of Avila
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[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.
— Julio Cortazar
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What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses;…
— Henry R. Towne
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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
— Eric Hoffer
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All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.
— Frederick Lenz
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