Attainment Quotes

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Long, Goal

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• 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

  Inspirational, Technology, Ethos

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• 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

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Lessons

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• 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

  Wisdom, Determination, Goal

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wish, Laziness, Good Wishes

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Mean

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• 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

  Errors, Sound, Helping

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 63)

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• The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Men, Civilized

  Pierre Trudeau's speech from the Throne, House of Commons, September 12, 1968.

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• There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Men, Space

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Country, Thailand, Action

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Fellow Man

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.79

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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Flux, Existence

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• 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

  Art, Philosophy, History

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• 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

  Book, Writing, New Beginnings

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, New Beginnings, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Motivational, Determination, Singleness Of Purpose

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• 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

  Humble, Humility, Lows

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• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

  Joseph Pilates

  Zest, Daily Tasks, Mind

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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

  Race, Civilization, Diversity

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• 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

  Names, World, Almighty

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• Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

  Mia Michaels

  Motivational, Levels, Becoming

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• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

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• Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Spiritual

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