Attain

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself thereyou have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

- Saint Augustine of Hippo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How can I attain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence How can I get Him to call me inside You are the Great Merchant You have millions of traders. Who is the benefactor Who can take me to Him

- Granth Sahib Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a givenmoment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

- Mahatma Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believed in our group this past season, as well. While we did not achieve what we needed to, this group worked to deal with various obstacles, and I am proud of their efforts - especially their work in recent weeks (finished on 9-1-2 run) when they overcame significant odds to almost attain a playoff berth after we dug a huge hole for ourselves.

- Pat Quinn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

- Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

- H. L. Mencken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We take forever trying to attain success in life, only to find out it lasts but a Sunday.

- Dedrick Pitter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

- Herbie Hancock Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

- Simon Greenleaf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In exchange for the cap, the players get more control over their rights and a pension three times larger than the one under the previous deal and easier to attain. Before, our rights were we came into the league at 18 and didn't have a choice where we were going to play until we were 31, ... That's a lot of years. Now you can come in at 18 and be 25 or 27. It gives players a chance to choose a city they've always wanted to play for.

- Jarome Iginla Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

- John Buchan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of mankind which we apparently can hardly attain without going through the invigorating hibernation of a new barbarism.

- G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Today we are in transition, we are about to attain political stability built on a constitutional foundation.

- Ibrahim Jaafari Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first intelligence then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it the singleness of purpose and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.

- Marshal Foch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The true snob never rests there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

- J. Russel Lynes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our firm was really good about supporting women. We felt that we could attain professionally whatever we set our hearts on, but we didn't want to have to sacrifice the family part.

- Bree Kurihari Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say ''.Come, be my wife'' With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

- Olive Schreiner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One does not attain freedom from the bondage of Karma by merely abstaining from work. No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.

- Bhagavad-Gita Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

- Wilbur Wright Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

- Edward Morgan 'E. M.' Forster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

- Alan Thicke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Princeton is attempting here to attain a leadership role, a national leadership role, in something that we have come to see as a national problem.

- Cass Cliatt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes