Attainment Quotes

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

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.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

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.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

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.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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.

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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

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.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

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.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

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.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

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.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.