Attainment Quotes - Page 9

• I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only emptiness; it is always unfulfilled. By the very nature, by its very intrinsic nature, it cannot attain to fulfillment. When you are not, fulfillment is. Call it God, or give it a name Patanjali would like - samadhi - the attainment of the ultimate, but it comes when you disappear.

  Rajneesh

  Names, Giving, Ego

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• Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Blood, Should Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Soul, Helping, Praying

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• 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

  Basketball, Art, Hard Work

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• Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Social, Highest

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Games, Perfection

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• 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

  Knowing, Intuition, Would Be

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• When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.

  Richard G. Scott

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1910). “The Art of Literature: a Series of Essays in Arthur Schopenhauer...”

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• The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Past, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Spiritual, Humility, Missionary

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• The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Life, Mean, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Character, Greatness, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.139

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• 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

  Inspirational, Maturity, Alive

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Ordinary, Tongue

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.

  Lionel Shriver

  Morning, Heart, People

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

  Ed Bliss

  Failure, Mean, Absence

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• Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Special, Degrees

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.345, Macmillan

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• Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Character

  "How to Know Higher Worlds".

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• When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Two

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• The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind.

  Florence Bascom

  Lying, Character, Science

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• To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

  Meher Baba

  Inspirational, Essence, Games

  Meher Baba (2005). “Infinite Intelligence”

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• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Order

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.22

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• Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

  Martin Buber

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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