Top 100 Attains Quotes
#1. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#2. If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.
Thomas Merton
#3. When the Universe attains Versistasis, everything will cease to exist and be create in the perfected dual moment.
Jason Jowett
#4. He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
Matsuo Basho
#5. If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.
Dada Bhagwan
#6. Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
Constantin Brancusi
#7. He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA
David Lynch
#8. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that
Anonymous
#9. As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
Haile Selassie
#10. Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
Baron De Montesquieu
#11. Nature attains perfection, but man never does.
Eric Hoffer
#12. When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man
Anonymous
#14. Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.
Laozi
#15. Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Andrew Lang
#16. The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.
Napoleon Hill
#17. That in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
Leo Tolstoy
#18. Some people claim, 'I am the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta)'. Hey! What do you mean you are 'Knower-Seer'? 'You' are still 'Chandubhai'? The Knower-Seer state begins after one realizes the Self, after one attains the awareness of the Self [the soul].
Dada Bhagwan
#19. The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. A great teacher attains immortality in his students.
David Mitchell
#21. What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!
Dada Bhagwan
#22. The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
William Morris
#23. Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#24. Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.
Thomas A Kempis
#25. But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
William Shakespeare
#26. The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Khalil Gibran
#27. It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#28. Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
Heraclitus
#29. The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#30. When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
George Pierce Baker
#31. What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. ( ... ) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't seek validation in the outwardly visible.
Haruki Murakami
#32. It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good
Swami Vivekananda
#33. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
Teresa Of Avila
#34. Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ...
Margaret Sanger
#35. Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
Gautama Buddha
#36. There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#37. 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 in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. Don't give yourself to negligence,
Don't devote yourself to sensual pleasure,
Vigilant and absorbed in meditation
One attains abundant happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#39. Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.
Evagrius Ponticus
#41. He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness
Shri Radhe Maa
#42. 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 liberty.
Saint Augustine
#43. 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 contemplation to look into himself.
John Calvin
#44. That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.
Dada Bhagwan
#45. All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.
Hermann Nothnagel
#46. There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married once she attains puberty, and hence we cannot say that such marriages are not valid.
Girija Vyas
#47. Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#48. 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 that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
Alexander Graham Bell
#49. When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
Muhammad Ali
#50. The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.
H.L. Mencken
#51. Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
Anton Chekhov
#52. It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles - the creation of supernal Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
#53. Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
Thomas Huxley
#54. As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
Adi Shankara
#55. There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
Oscar Wilde
#56. What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.
Sarada Devi
#57. If one attains only the faith in the Self, he will not experience fear anywhere at all, fear will go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#58. The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this 'puzzle' attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].
Dada Bhagwan
#59. For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
Euripides
#60. About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
Samuel Johnson
#61. In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
Ernest Renan
#62. In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
Antonin Artaud
#63. The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one's own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, 'I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).
Dada Bhagwan
#64. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.
Charles Dickens
#65. The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell
#66. China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
Victor Ponta
#67. God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
Teresa Of Avila
#68. The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
#69. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.
George Carlin
#70. In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
Bill Watterson
#71. Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.
Ivan Goncharov
#72. 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 his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
Kabir
#73. For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.
Jan Hus
#74. People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#76. In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of 'I am absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)'; one's well-being [spiritual work] is done.
Dada Bhagwan
#77. One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#78. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.
Aleister Crowley
#79. But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws proclaim it; it spreads with freedom and attains unimpeded its ultimate consequences.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#80. From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#81. Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
William Benton Clulow
#82. With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.
Fazal Inayat-Khan
#83. 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 sits on the top of a tall building.
Chanakya
#84. Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru Nanak
#85. How can a person who has awakened to the truth about his body ever die? Such a one attains to immortality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).
Dada Bhagwan
#88. Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.
Andrew Lang
#89. Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
And grant the bad what happiness they would,
One they must want
which is, to pass for good.
Alexander Pope
#91. No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
#92. Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
#93. The Lord states, 'What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush'.
Dada Bhagwan
#94. When one sees one's own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss!
Dada Bhagwan
#95. The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Robert Graves
#96. The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.
Jorg Immendorff
#97. 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
#98. Not everyone who attains Self-realization can make a reliable guide. I have been saying "he," but this is not a role for men alone. My own teacher is my mother's mother.
Anonymous
#99. Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. When the yogini is firmly established in truthfulness, she attains the fruits of actions without acting.
Gary Kissiah
