Top 100 Attained Quotes
#1. It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
Isabel Allende
#2. I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
Man Ray
#3. I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.
Robert E.Lee
#4. So you see, the most vital question then becomes, what type of woman will conquer our hero? If she be of poor quality, he'll become a slave. But if she be great, then her greatness will elevate the man to greater heights than he could ever have attained on his own.
Bryan M. Litfin
#5. The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#7. May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself.
Tulku Urgyen
#8. For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
Plato
#9. The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
Ludwig Quidde
#10. Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?
Richard Robbins
#11. Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#12. By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.
Wuhayb Ibn Al-Wird
#13. For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
Swami Vivekananda
#15. Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.
Michael Crichton
#16. Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.
Stefan Zweig
#17. Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Samuel Johnson
#18. But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.
Stafford Cripps
#19. When energy turns in - what Buddha calls paravritti, the coming back of your energy to the source - suddenly clarity is attained. Then you can see clouds a thousand miles away, and then you can hear ancient music in the pines.
Osho
#20. Table 2 When will human-level machine intelligence be attained?81
Nick Bostrom
#21. That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#22. Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight.
David McCullough
#26. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Karl Marx
#27. I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Jane Austen
#28. As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#29. I observed that equality of condition, though it has not there reached the extreme limit which it seems to have attained in the United States, is constantly approaching it; and that the democracy which governs the American communities appears to be rapidly rising into power in Europe.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#30. When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.
Evelyn Lauder
#31. Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#32. Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
Laozi
#33. A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.
Henry Latham Doherty
#34. Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.
James Allen
#35. Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Robert Herrick
#36. A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
Anthony De Mello
#37. ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed
Charles Dickens
#38. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
Samuel Johnson
#39. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
Oliver Goldsmith
#40. When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.
Rajneesh
#41. Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific
state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
Alan Watts
#42. The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#43. It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor
#45. Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
Samuel Johnson
#46. Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.
Marianne Williamson
#47. If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.
Kabir
#48. By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
Russell Brand
#49. When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so utterly winnowed, fear too is forgotten. Thus it was that the priest no longer could understand why Hell should exist.
Yukio Mishima
#50. The object attained by both good and bad methods is the same, but the way one tries to attain it turns the object into right or wrong. It is not the object which is wrong, it is the way one adopts to attain it.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#51. There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained when we give them to others.
John Wooden
#52. Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
William Penn
#53. So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#54. Attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that
Charles Dickens
#55. The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.
Joshua Reynolds
#56. With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
#57. I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it's an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
Andrew Weil
#58. Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
Hermann Hesse
#59. Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.
Napoleon Hill
#60. They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
Arthur C. Clarke
#61. Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.
Tony Robbins
#62. If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.
Gautama Buddha
#63. Why chose strife and anger if it will only take us further from our purpose? Happiness can be attained anywhere, not just in a place of beauty or freedom.
Kaza Kingsley
#64. People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.
Francis Howgill
#65. I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
Thurston Moore
#66. When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation.
Frederick Franck
#67. The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.
Stephen Spender
#68. This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#69. The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.
Shinjo Ito
#70. Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. White can be attained by blending all the colors of the spectrum together, or through the substraction of ink and all other pigments. In short, it is "all colors" and "no color" at the same time.
Kenya Hara
#72. Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
William Gilmore Simms
#73. ...August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but - so the evidence suggests - not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts
Noam Chomsky
#74. A divine 'punishment' is also a divine 'gift', if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make 'punishments' (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained
J.R.R. Tolkien
#75. There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life
happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton C. March
#76. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.
Anton Chekhov
#77. The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.
Russell Kirk
#78. It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
Piet Mondrian
#79. Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained.
Dada Bhagwan
#80. No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle.
#81. Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#82. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein
#83. Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
Margaret Halsey
#84. These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.
Sun Tzu
#85. You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.
Ford Madox Ford
#86. Success is not attained when the goal is reached; success is attained from the time when the first step is taken towards that goal.
Gudjon Bergmann
#87. He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.
Neal Gabler
#88. No man of action has more completely attained the point of view of the scientific historian, who observes the movements of mankind with the same detachment as a bacteriologist observes bacilli under a microscope and yet with a sympathy that springs from his own common manhood. In
B.H. Liddell Hart
#89. The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova
#90. Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#91. We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#92. I'm the devoted slave of anyone who doesn't claim to have attained dining with God at every way station. Many inns must be left behind before you reach your home.
Rumi
#93. My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed ... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
#94. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
#95. What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.
Wernher Von Braun
#96. Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H.L. Mencken
#97. Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.
Myles Munroe
#98. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
Socrates
#99. If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.
Thomas Merton
#100. To have attained to the human form is a source of joy ... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
Zhuangzi
