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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality. -- Benjamin Franklin
Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity. -- Umar
Acquire knowledge and teach it to people. -- Umar
Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience. -- Anandamayi Ma
Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed. -- Uthman ibn Affan
Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved. -- Seraphim of Sarov
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. -- Catherine Doherty
There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow. -- Lester Wunderman
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. -- Confucius
Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable. -- John Wooden
Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect. -- Bryant McGill
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance. -- Umar
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. -- Isaac Watts
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. -- William Osler
Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary. -- Chanakya
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them. -- Charlie Munger
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do -- Osip Mandelstam
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. -- Apollonius of Tyana
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved. -- Seraphim of Sarov
We acquire the strength we have overcome. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. -- Stendhal
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. -- Nathaniel Branden
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. -- Wayne Dyer
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. -- Aristotle
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. -- James J. Corbett
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. -- Epicurus
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. -- George Sand
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. -- Eli Broad
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life. -- Stanley Hauerwas
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. -- Aldous Huxley
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. -- Robert G. Allen
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -- Anais Nin
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. -- Carlos Ghosn
Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them. -- William Shawcross
Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it. -- James E. Faust
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. -- Salvador Dali
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good. -- Kevin DeYoung
To acquire style, begin by affecting none. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. -- Horace
We work to become, not to acquire. -- Elbert Hubbard
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. -- Marvin Minsky
You need to acquire a lover, Madam President. -- Lynn Raye Harris
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. -- Laurence Sterne
It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices. -- Italo Calvino
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. -- Thomas Jefferson
Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to acquire wisdom is by perceptual realization. -- Debasish Mridha
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward. -- Horace
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. -- Arnold H. Glasow
That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually. -- W. C. Fields
Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by. -- John Bercow
I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire. -- Alan Kulwicki
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater. -- Orrin Woodward
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. -- Niklaus Wirth
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. -- Baltasar Gracian
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. -- Benjamin Franklin
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. -- Virginia Woolf
You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them. -- Ry Cooder
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. -- William Faulkner
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it. -- Robert G. Allen
... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away. -- Daisy Goodwin
The only way to make a difference is to acquire power. -- Hillary Clinton
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. -- John Naisbitt
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way -- Aristotle
We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. -- William Glasser
WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME. -- Anonymous
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth. -- Ambrose Bierce
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. -- Mark Twain
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. -- William Shenstone
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. -- Laozi
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. -- Mason Cooley
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. -- Albert Schweitzer
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. -- Edith Wharton
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. -- Pasquier Quesnel
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. -- Thomas Jefferson
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. -- George Santayana
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. -- Benjamin Disraeli
You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding. -- Sandy Woodward
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. -- Steven Pinker
You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing. -- Irene Sharaff
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom. -- Maimonides
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. -- Leonhard Euler
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything. -- Adyashanti
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet. -- Charles F. Haanel
One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones. -- P.D. Ouspensky
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. -- Napoleon Hill
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. -- Ernst Lubitsch
My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. -- Albert Einstein
Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten. -- Eddie Murphy
You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. -- Hugh Mackay
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. -- Karl Popper
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate. -- Pythagoras
You have no idea how far I'm willing to go to acquire your cooperation. -- Jack Bauer
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. -- Rumi
You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news. -- Manu Joseph
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. -- George Bernard Shaw
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. -- Seneca the Younger
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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