Quotes About Attainment

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

Hilvar knew better than this; he had sensed it instinctively from the first. 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. What

We will turn, therefore, to the less ambitious problem: what the behaviour of men themselves reveals as the purpose and object of their lives, what they demand of life and wish to attain in it. The answer to this can hardly be in doubt: they seek happiness, they want to become happy and to remain so.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.

If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is 'relative'. And "All these relatives are temporary adjustments".

Happiness and success are not something that we can attain or possibly loose, but rather inside qualities that we have forgotten about during the very process of reaching them.

A man obtains only what he strives for. He

Belief precedes acquisition, realization or attainment of anything or any level. Oh! Yes, you can acquire, realize or attain anything, any aspiration, any goal, any height or any level in life if only you do believe undoubtedly that you can. -Emeasoba George

You can realize or achieve any dream, vision or aspiration. As well, you can attain any position or status in life, once you have resolved to pursue it and work towards it tirelessly. Oh! yes, you can unless you think otherwise. -Emeasoba George

Aim high, hit high.

Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

My job, I've made it as far as I can and have gotten to the highest level.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

What we want our ending to do is to do more than we could have dreamed it would do. Sheesh.

The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass. I rediscover indifference (allowing her to leave me) when I fall asleep, through an inability to love what happens. It is impossible for her to know whom she will discover when I hold her, because she obstinately attains a complete forgetting.

This is what I like," said Jessie. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

I've won every title, and I've done everything in my division.

Titles are what I crave.