Quotes About Attainment

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition— The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?

We qualify for heaven when we enter God's presence. Some people attain that state in this life; while still living on the earth they see God. Others fail to do so even after death.

The heart and passions of men are moved by things more within their attainment; the essential nature is stirred by the essential life; by the real actual existence of love, and hope, and character, and by the real literature which takes in its spirit, and which is in some sort its undefecated essence.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

I think I'm ready for the success I'm having.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

Because the desire and drive for intimacy are at the very heart of marriage, the individuals involved become troubled about their relationship when such intimacy is not attained.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

Happiness Begin with Success

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence

Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Manifestation is the pretest that must be mastered in order to reach the vision.

Getting it done is my reward.

Il n'était ambitieux qu'avec nonchalance ; il était exigeant sans être avide, ayant de tout temps l'habitude de tout obtenir.

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;

The past is usually the enemy of cheerfulness and cheerfulness is a most precious attainment. Personally, I could even go so far as to exhibit hostility toward grief and a marked hostility toward remorse—two states of mind which feed on the past instead of the present.

Alvin was an explorer, and 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.