Attainment Quotes - Page 12

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Life Is, Speak

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, Ego, Enlightenment

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.192, Shambhala Publications

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• Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Years, Perfection, Contentment

  "Samuelson's Foundations: The Role of Mathematics in Economics". Journal of Political Economy, Volume 56, June 1948.

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• Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Taken, Men, Long

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• That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Mind, Contentment

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• 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

  Provision, Practicals, Ultimate

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Hinduism, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Independence, Search For Truth

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• Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in history. Many reasons could be cited for that optimism. Yet your greatest source of hope and assurance is that you have the fulness of the teachings of the Master. They will show you how to live a good life. You can receive ordinances and covenants that when righteously lived assure true happiness and significant attainment.

  Richard G. Scott

  Good Life, Teaching, Optimism

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• Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.

  Ernest Sosa

  Soul, Virtue, Pursuit

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Inspirational, Political, Politics

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• A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

  R. H. Tawney

  Riches, Wealth, Hell

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• The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Character, Adversity

  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.187

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• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  Will Ferguson

  Happiness, Promise, Beyond The Horizon

  Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”

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• Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Teaching, Night

  "Explore Hinduism". Book by Bansi Pandit, p. 21, 2005.

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• 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

  Mean, Agency, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Envy, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.31

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• Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills that will lead to a productive and satisfying career. My goal is for every student to get a job after they graduate – not move back in with his or her parents. To do that, we must emphasize skill attainment in our community colleges and universities, use our resources more efficiently and measure success in a comprehensive way.

  Pat McCrory

  Jobs, Moving, School

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• Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humble, Pride, Intellectual

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• 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

  Alarms, Advancement, Helping

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.244, NYU Press

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• The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Suffering

  Source: home.online.nl

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• 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

  Keys, Justice, Political

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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