Attainment Quote by Lyman Abbott Download Open image “The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.” — Lyman Abbott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attainment Character Ideals Running
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good. — African Spir Copy Share Image
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
