Quotes About Attainment

#1. Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

Samuel Johnson

#2. The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

Kathryn Kuhlman

#3. The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

William Hazlitt

#4. Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

Samuel Johnson

#5. Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;

Aristotle.

#6. Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Paul J. Meyer

#7. Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

Cyril Burt

#8. Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.

Danny Villanueva

#9. Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.

James Madison

#11. Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#12. What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.

Josef Pieper

#13. Person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.

Neville Goddard

#14. When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

Edmund Fuller

#15. Finding that core of truth within yourself ... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love ... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.

David Wilcock

#16. In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

Alfred North Whitehead

#17. Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

Sivananda

#18. There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again ...

Saint Francis De Sales

#19. The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.

Robert D. Kaplan

#20. It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#21. Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

Frances G. Wickes

#22. Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

Tony Robbins

#23. The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant H. McGill

#24. Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

John Herman Randall

#25. The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

Aristotle.

#26. Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

#27. The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
remain still and let God act and speak in you.

Meister Eckhart

#28. [Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

Frances Power Cobbe

#29. Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, nor to read it in books. Look for the truth within yourself, not without yourself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#30. Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

Lyman Abbott

#32. Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Aldo Leopold

#33. Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

Abraham J. Twerski

#36. The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Savielly Tartakower

#37. humility is one of the chief and the highest graces; one of the most difficult of attainment; one to which our first and chiefest efforts ought to be directed; one that only comes in power, when the fullness of the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ, and He lives within us. Second,

Andrew Murray

#38. Because your attainment is always ahead, you will always be sacrificing yourself now for some ideal in the future.

Shunryu Suzuki

#39. When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.

Debasish Mridha

#40. That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

John Ruskin

#41. Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

Bryant McGill

#42. Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together over time with millions of actions performed by other people to create historical significance.

Leo Tolstoy

#43. Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that
one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Donald Barthelme

#44. I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Emmuska Orczy

#45. Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

Plato

#46. We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

Sri Aurobindo

#47. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

John F. Kennedy

#49. The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Alan Cohen

#50. What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Alan Keightley

#51. For Aristotle, it is not within our power to seek anything else, and thus /all/ acts have for their basic purpose the attainment of happiness or that which is good in itself and not merely as a means to something else.

Robert F. Almeder

#52. It is the process of searching for meaning, not the hypothetical attainment of it, that is important. So long as we spiritually try, we stay alive in the fullest sense of the word.

Robert L. Schwarz

#53. Insistence on one's own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#54. Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Hudson Taylor

#55. Salvation is about restoration--not merely restoration to the original state in Eden, but to the attainment of the goal of Eden.

Ralph Smith

#56. The enquiry 'Who am I?' is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

Ramana Maharshi

#57. A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#58. A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

Leo Tolstoy

#59. The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

Andrew Carnegie

#60. Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#61. You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Claude M. Bristol

#62. I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.

Radhanath Swami

#63. Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Johan Huizinga

#64. Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition - The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?

Santideva

#65. Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

Wei Wu Wei

#66. Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

Brigham Young

#67. I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

Cordell Hull

#68. The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

Paul A. Baran

#69. The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.

Abdu'l- Baha

#70. According to this view, love is simply a direction, not a place, and burns itself out with the attainment of its goal, the possession (in bed or otherwise) of the loved one.

Alain De Botton

#71. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Lane Allen

#72. Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

Bryant McGill

#73. Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery.

Sean Williams

#74. The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

David Hume

#75. Attainment of desirable states brings joy, failure to do so becomes sorrow.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#76. It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

James Russell Lowell

#77. Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

Radhe Maa

#78. Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment.

Alan W. Watts

#79. No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Jean De La Bruyere

#80. Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose.

Napoleon Hill

#81. The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#82. The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means
and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one
to the attainment of the real objective. The object of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks but to destroy his will.

Liddell Hart

#83. Attainment of success is in the pursue of happiness.

Ndiritu Wahome

#84. Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

Jonathan Edwards

#85. Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

Greg Norman

#86. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#87. But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

Idries Shah

#88. Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.

Wallace D. Wattles

#89. It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

Edgar Allan Poe

#90. The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

Brian Tracy

#91. The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in it attainment.

Rudger Clawson

#92. Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

Marianne Williamson

#93. Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.

Richard Whately

#94. I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Adam Braun

#95. The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

Dalai Lama

#96. Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the source) beckon to intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.

Carlos Castaneda

#97. The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

#98. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

Brian Tracy

#99. I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so
what's next?

Lionel Shriver

#100. No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton