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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• 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

  Passion, Giving, Accomplishment

  John Norris, Mary Astell (1705). “Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of the Proposal to the ladies, and Mr. John Norris: wherein his late discourse, showing that it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other loves, is further cleared and justified”, p.53

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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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• Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

  Gerry Adams

  Republican, Capacity, Sinn Fein

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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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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• 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 great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Lonely, Art

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Order, Aquariums, Heaven

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• The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

  David Hume

  Ends, Humans, Industry

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.167

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• This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Loss, Boys

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.50

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.794, e-artnow

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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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• "Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

  Samuel Smiles

  Thinking, Achievement, Able

  Samuel Smiles (2017). “Self-Help: The Original Guide to Bootstrapping Your Success”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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