Top 100 Quotes About Attainment
#1. Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Ludwig Von Mises
#2. Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
William Jewett Tucker
#3. The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
Richard Dawkins
#4. At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.
Hugh Black
#5. If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.
Shunryu Suzuki
#6. Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches
Napoleon Hill
#7. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag
#8. We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Griffith Thomas
#9. Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,
Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;
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Munindra Misra
#10. I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
Honore De Balzac
#11. I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn
#12. No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
David Brainerd
#13. I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
Thomas Huxley
#14. If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
Sivananda
#15. It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
Epictetus
#16. Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
Thornton T. Munger
#17. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell
#18. For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#19. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Kahlil Gibran
#20. Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith
Gautama Buddha
#21. We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?
Virginia Mae Axline
#23. Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know
because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#24. I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Barbra Streisand
#26. There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within
the beyond
the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
Elsa Barker
#27. Jesus knew not only his goals but also the step time of their attainment
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell
#29. Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.
Sarah Lewis
#30. The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
Ludwig Von Mises
#31. If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.
Seungsahn
#32. The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#34. The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. The freedom of the seed is in the attainment of its dharma, its nature and destiny of becoming a tree; it is the non-accomplishment which is its prison.
Anonymous
#36. Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
Dan Millman
#37. For the attainment of blessedness, a law has been given to humanity which it should fulfill. The law is that of the union of mankind.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. The Dalai Lama is rumored to have said that being able to have sex without any attachment would take the level of attainment of being able to eat either chocolate cake or dog shit without any preference between the two.
Noah Levine
#39. Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
Gerry Adams
#40. The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
#41. Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn't goal attainment but the process of striving after goals-that is, growth-that brings happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#42. Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.
Seraphim Rose
#43. The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
Ludwig Quidde
#44. If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
Eisaku Sato
#45. It is so that these impious ones wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify their yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring them to their desired end, not by exhaustion but by attainment.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#46. It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer
#47. Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
Samuel Johnson
#48. Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.
William Clark
#49. So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.
James Stephens
#51. It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#52. You? - his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes - he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown his cowardice now;
Edith Wharton
#53. The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
Gore Vidal
#54. Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
#56. First. I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
Napoleon Hill
#57. We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
Gene Roddenberry
#58. Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
Sivananda
#59. If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires - they are merely daydreams.
Nathaniel Branden
#60. The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.
Ludwig Buchner
#61. The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
Charles Caleb Colton
#63. Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.
Sai Baba
#64. The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
Lydia M. Child
#65. How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!
Robertson Davies
#66. Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
Spencer W. Kimball
#67. To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.
Erich Fromm
#68. We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.
Stafford Cripps
#69. Her glance, the touch of her hand, set him aflame. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that evening ...
Leo Tolstoy
#70. Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
Henrik Ibsen
#72. Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.
Pope Francis
#73. Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.
Laozi
#74. The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Alexander Hamilton
#75. The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
Herbert Spencer
#76. Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
H.P. Lovecraft
#77. Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.
Frederick Lenz
#78. What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
Louis D. Brandeis
#79. To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.
Elias James Corey
#80. Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.
Mas Oyama
#81. Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.
Michael Novak
#82. The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Tom DeMarco
#83. It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
Max Planck
#85. When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.
Laura Riding
#86. My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
Benigno Aquino III
#87. We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.
Ada Lovelace
#88. In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
#89. The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc.
Michio Kaku
#90. The "supreme good" and its attainment
that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.
Josef Pieper
#91. The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.
Frederick Lenz
#92. For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.
Ivan Panin
#93. It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
Kwame Nkrumah
#94. The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
Bill Gates
#95. Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.
Gertrude Mongella
#96. It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
Thomas Huxley
#97. Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#98. When you have a definite purpose of life, the universe will reveal the path to attainment.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.
Danielle LaPorte
#100. The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
Pierre Trudeau
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