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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. -- H. L. Mencken
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. -- Voltaire
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. -- Pope John Paul II
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. -- Thomas J. Watson
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. -- Abigail Adams
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. -- Napoleon Hill
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. -- Simone Weil
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. -- Ramakrishna
So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop. -- Buddy Rich
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. -- John Milton
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. -- Chanakya
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. -- Helen Keller
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. -- Max Weber
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. -- Stephen Harper
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. -- Aristotle
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. -- Beverly Jones
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. -- Marie Curie
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. -- Lao Tzu
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. -- Saint Augustine
Karan Johar finally attained puberty at 42 -- Pooja Bhatt
Wherever work is done, victory is attained. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfection can never be attained by work. -- Swami Vivekananda
Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift. -- Radhanath Swami
Stability can only be attained by inactive matter. -- Marie Curie
This purity is attained through conquering the passions. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability -- Plautus
Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us. -- Swami Vivekananda
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained. -- Edward Weston
If you have truely attained wholeness, everything will flock to you. -- Laozi
Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. -- Rajneesh
Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire. -- Walter Raleigh
He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world. -- Laozi
I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy. -- Ronnie Coleman
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. -- Homer
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority. -- Victor Hugo
Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures. -- Bryant McGill
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. -- Gary Zukav
The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance. -- Owen Feltham
Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory -- C. S. Lewis
Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics. -- Frederick Osborn
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. -- Swami Vivekananda
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. -- Pope John Paul II
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. -- Zeno of Citium
Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained. -- Ricky Maye
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. -- Zeno of Citium
So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. -- Sun Tzu
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. -- Jack London
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. -- Henri Matisse
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. -- J. K. Rowling
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. -- H. L. Mencken
Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests. -- Myles Munroe
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. -- Bela Lugosi
There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. -- Thomas Aquinas
The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players -- Jack Ramsay
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained. -- Kim Chestney
When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained. -- Lynn Hill
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody. -- Suzanne La Follette
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. -- Gogen Yamaguchi
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. -- W. H. Auden
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. -- William Gilmore Simms
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. -- John Owen
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. -- Aaron Cohen
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it. -- William Arthur Ward
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained. -- Hugh Prather
If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained. -- Gautama Buddha
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. -- Theodore Martin
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. -- D. A. Carson
A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment. -- Michelle Cruz
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. -- Leonardo da Vinci
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. -- Sri Aurobindo
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained. -- Man Ray
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained. -- Amadeo Giannini
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it -- Jean de la Bruyere
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind. -- Paul Brunton
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -- Abigail Adams
To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. -- Richard G. Scott
The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified. -- Fernando Pessoa
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? -- Soren Kierkegaard
Economic boycott of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. -- Osama bin Laden
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. Thereâ??s always room at the top in every pursuit. -- Andrew Carnegie
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. -- Marie Curie
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. -- Hedy Lamarr
If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger. -- Gautama Buddha
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. -- Gustave Flaubert
Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means! -- Charles Spurgeon

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