Acquire Quotes

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

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

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

We must endure to the end; . . . We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.