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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. -- Mary Astell
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. -- Ludwig von Mises
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. -- Gerry Adams
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. -- Susan Sontag
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. -- Bryant H. McGill
The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country. -- Bhumibol Adulyadej
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. -- Johan Huizinga
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. -- Eisaku Sato
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. -- Ludwig Quidde
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? -- Joseph Campbell
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. -- Cyril Burt
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way -- Havelock Ellis
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. -- Samuel Johnson
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective. -- Walter Kohn
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it -- Jean de la Bruyere
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men -- Thomas Huxley
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth. -- Aristotle
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted. -- George Ripley
I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved. -- Cordell Hull
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. -- Robert Collier
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. -- Napoleon Hill
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last -- Samuel Johnson
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt. -- Stafford Cripps
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. -- Joseph Lancaster
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. -- Samuel Smiles
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. -- Arnold Palmer
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. -- Havelock Ellis
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. -- James Allen
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. -- James Allen
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. -- Thomas Huxley
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. -- B. R. Hayden
My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this. -- Benigno Aquino III
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. -- Robert Collier
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice. -- Louis D. Brandeis
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement. -- James Stephens
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles. -- Richard Dawkins
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. -- Ernest Hemingway
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. -- Louis D. Brandeis
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies. -- Max Heindel
The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment. -- Gore Vidal
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness. -- Ann Radcliffe
Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment. -- Frances G. Wickes
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. -- Aldo Leopold
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment. -- Lyman Abbott
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully. -- Lydia M. Child
Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment. -- Danielle LaPorte
The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return. -- Alan Cohen
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. -- Widad Akrawi
The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills. -- Bill Gates
All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility. -- Bruce R. McConkie
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment. -- Tom DeMarco
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness -- David Hume
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. -- Stanley Baldwin
The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures. -- Bryant McGill
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. -- Pablo Neruda
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind. -- Gene Roddenberry
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. -- Pierre Trudeau
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. -- Ed Bliss
Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives. -- Sai Baba
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. -- Epictetus
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians. -- Hudson Taylor
...There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again... -- Saint Francis de Sales
No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances. -- Frank Arthur Swinnerton
Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;- 5 - -- Munindra Misra
The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness. -- Josef Pieper
The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in it attainment. -- Rudger Clawson
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. -- Thomas Jefferson
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment. -- Bryant H. McGill
The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment. -- Dalai Lama
The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self. -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment. -- Spencer W. Kimball
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. -- William Hazlitt
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. -- Thomas McEvilley
At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul. -- Hugh Black
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. -- Khalil Gibran
Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God. -- Wallace D. Wattles
If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest. -- Seung Sahn
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. -- Savielly Tartakower
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. -- Frances Power Cobbe
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just. -- Danny Villanueva
The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment. -- Brian Tracy
When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache. -- Ivan Panin
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you. -- Meister Eckhart
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. -- Brigham Young
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. -- Ernest Hemingway
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
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana. -- Paul Carus
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief. -- Alan Keightley
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity. -- Sivananda
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. -- Thomas Huxley
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
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him. -- Leo Tolstoy
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. -- Ludwig von Mises
Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. -- Shunryu Suzuki
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment. -- Barbra Streisand
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. -- Herbert Spencer
When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession. -- Debasish Mridha
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. -- Carl Jung
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
Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. -- Paul J. Meyer
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality. -- Sivananda

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