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Quotes About Attainment

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.
~ Meher Baba
It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.
~ Kevin Costner
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
~ Raymond Carver
it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.
~ Joan Bauer
I am glad something happened to give you what you wanted.
~ Anna Katharine Green
The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.
~ Mindy Grossman
and Jimmy had made it all
~ Fern Michaels
Only slight goals are worth pursuing, because only a slight goal can be entirely fulfilled.
~ Fernando Pessoa
el afán de alcanzar algo es menor que lo que logramos alcanzar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
For me, to be part of 'Maximum' is another feather in my cap.
~ Neha Dhupia
To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.
~ Conor Oberst
The principle of moral risk suggests that it is more rational to aim for a smaller good which seems more probable of attainment than to aim for a larger one which seems less, when the two courses of action have equal probable goodness. Other things being equal, 'a high weight and the absence of risk increase pro tanto the desirability of the action to which they refer'.
~ Robert Skidelsky
Of course, to attain righteousness by observing the law, people must keep the law perfectly (James 2:10), which no person is capable of doing.
~ Ron Rhodes
The possibility of acquiring the art of writing may be withheld from someone through poverty, or through the conditions of civilization into which he is born; but for the attainment of knowledge and proficiency in the higher worlds, there is no obstacle for those who earnestly seek them.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Congratulations, the new slip said. You made it.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
~ Marva Collins
Success is a collection of problems solved.
~ I.M. Pei
Success is a great deodorant.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Modesty is the key to success
~ Paul the Apostle
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
When success finds you, it's because you were looking for it.
~ Larry Fitzgerald