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Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle. -- Mason Cooley
Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families. -- Kevin Rudd
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. -- Tal Ben-Shahar
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. -- Horace Mann
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. -- Evan Dando
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. -- Guy Spier
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. -- Brian Greene
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. -- Sophie Swetchine
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. -- George Ripley
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. -- Richard Owen
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. -- Gustave Meyrink
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you. -- Jay-Z
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates. -- Ben Bernanke
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. -- Herbert Hoover
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. -- Joan Miro
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream. -- Ellen Tauscher
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. -- Winston Graham
I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective. -- Kristin Gore
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. -- Adam Weishaupt
Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height. -- Jeffrey Kluger
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. -- Adam Weishaupt
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. -- Arthur C. Brooks
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums. -- Martin Filler
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life. -- Osama bin Laden
A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness -- Dalai Lama
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others. -- John M. Perkins
In attaining our ideals,our means should be as pure as the end! -- Rajendra Prasad
What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it. -- Semir Zeki
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth. -- Douglas Coupland
Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still. -- Samael Aun Weor
Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny. -- Nikita Koloff
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. -- Thomas Hobbes
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining. -- Chester A. Arthur
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal -- Carol Alt
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. -- H. P. Lovecraft
A set and concrete term of attaining a plan mobilizes a man to fulfill it. -- Sunday Adelaja
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh. -- Lord Chesterfield
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. -- Socrates
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. -- Socrates
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal. -- Sunday Adelaja
It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one. -- Michael Josephson
Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness. -- Russell Simmons
Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment. -- Wayne Dyer
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals. -- Bryant McGill
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God. -- Anthony de Mello
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money -- Robert Kiyosaki
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. -- Nathaniel Branden
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it. -- Napoleon Hill
The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin. -- J. C. Ryle
We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution. -- Pema Chodron
If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness. -- Archibald Marwizi
Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom. -- Geeta Iyengar
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over. -- Thomas Hobbes
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage. -- Edward Gibbon
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it. -- Michel de Montaigne
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining -- Wallace D. Wattles
Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements. -- Archibald Marwizi
Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace. -- Brian Weiss
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. -- J. I. Packer
Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments. -- Thomas Merton
I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct. -- Isaac Asimov
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya. -- Sarada Devi
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter. -- Thomas Hobbes
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere. -- Radhanath Swami
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality. -- Wong Kiew Kit
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain. -- Confucius
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. -- Gustave Meyrink
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally. -- Immanuel Kant
Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace. -- Gautama Buddha
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao. -- Zhuangzi
Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively. -- Nathaniel Branden
Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. -- Gretchen Rubin
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own -- Herbert Hoover
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable. -- John Maynard Keynes
Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object. -- Margaret Kennedy
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause -- Gautama Buddha
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy. -- Albert Camus
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters. -- John Locke
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. -- Ramana Maharshi
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation. -- Henry Fielding
Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain. -- Albert Einstein

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