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• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

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• It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Happiness, Self, Life Is

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• 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

  Mean, Path, Source

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• 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

  Humility, Servant Of God, Wish

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• Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Fate, Men, World

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty, People, President

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• When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Easy

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.97, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• 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

  Skills, Ideas, Arrows

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.7, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

  Alan Cohen

  Spiritual, Path, Return

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

  Aristotle

  Order, Would Be, Purpose

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Success, Essentials, Enthusiasm

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

  Savielly Tartakower

  Success, Player, Battle

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• Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Nature, Mean, Government

  Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, 23 Feb. 1791

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• Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Exercise, Zest, Giving

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• Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Past, Iran, Years

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• 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

  Real, Government, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Men, May, Circumstances

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• We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

  William Griffith Thomas

  Christian, Spiritual, People

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• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Success, Goal, Progress

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• The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

  Rudger Clawson

  Work, Effort, Objects

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• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, San Francisco, Years

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• Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.

  Sarah Lewis

  Motivational, Experts, Path

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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