Quotes About Attainment

Some people just get what they want in the world.

Some people would say I've made it now.

Finish your journey and you will know.

Whatever human mind can conceive, it can achieve!)

All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are governed by the same law and are of the same method; the only difference lies in the object of attainment.

If there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.

The Heart Sutra says that there is "nothing to attain." We meditate not to attain enlightenment, because enlightenment is already in us.

something to be attained by special virtuous techniques, the less real it becomes. As it becomes less real, it recedes further into the distance of abstraction, futurity, unattainability. The

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

In everything regarding your salvation and the attainment of mercy, you are dependent on your soul. Thus no sacrifice can be too great for you. If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices.

Thus, what we call "symbols of transcendence" are the symbols that represent man's striving to attain this goal. They provide the means by which the contents of the unconscious can enter the conscious mind, and they also are themselves an active expression of those contents.

How melancholy a thing is success," he would later write. "Whilst failure inspires a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories 'are shadows, not substantial things.

It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.

As the people at the sharp end of delivering the government's commitment to tackle climate change we know attaining zero carbon status has always involved a flexible approach.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on 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.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Be sure that your definite purpose is constructive; that its attainment will bring hardship and misery to no one; that it will bring you peace and prosperity, then apply, to the limit of your understanding, the principle of self-suggestion for the speedy attainment of this purpose.

Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches