Attain Quote by Florence Scovel Shinn

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man obtains only what he strives for. He”

— John Wortabet

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

— Anonymous

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

— John Gray

A man can have nothing but what he strives for.

— Anonymous

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

“Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that…

— John Herman Randall

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

— James Allen

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

— Sri Aurobindo