Quotes About Attain

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

The word discipline has disappeared from our minds, our mouths, our pulpits, and our culture. We hardly know what discipline means in modern American society. And yet, there is no other way to attain godliness; discipline is the path to godliness. JAY ADAMS

The evolution of force can only be made by struggle, by combat, by effort, by exercise, and inasmuch as I´shvara is building men and not babies, He must draw out men's forces by pulling against their strength, making them struggle in order to attain, and so vivifying into outer manifestation the life that otherwise would remain enfolded in itself.

Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them. All this must be done by his reason.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

Immortality is attained in proportion as personal sense is overcome, whether here or hereafter. As we put off the personal ego and attain the consciousness of our real Self – the Reality of us, divine Consciousness – we attain immortality. And that can be achieved here and now.

The mind will be still if there's no warfare, but there's always warfare if you have two powers, if you have good and evil, if you have desires, if you struggle to attain or achieve something.

Since man is a rational creature, he can only attain freedom through the exercise of his reason, something more difficult in the primitive state than in civilization.

Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

They led a life that she could not attain to—the outer life of 'telegrams and anger,' which had detonated when Helen and Paul had touched in June, and had detonated again the other week.

A soul cannot seek close fellowship with God, or attain the abiding consciousness of waiting on Him all the day, without a very honest and entire surrender to all His will.

Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

New Year's Day is to refuel life with a new enthusiasm that energizes to take everything in a more positive way and helps to stay committed to attain excellence that inspires everyone straightaway.

Novices in the art attain to finish of diction and precision of portraiture before they can construct the plot.

It remains open to question whether anything that confines itself to the human sphere could ever attain anything but the subhuman.

El que tiene, obtiene.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.