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Quotes About Attainment

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.
~ Rudger Clawson
The end crowneth the work.
~ Elizabeth I
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies.
~ Max Heindel
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
~ Lloyd Banks
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
~ James Allen
I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
~ Jim Brown
interpreting to [ourselves] the directions of [our] lives, [our] pasts, presents, and futures. Small details and big developments. [We are] attaining clarity about [our] own hearts. . .arriving at self-knowledge as well as knowledge of the world. [Our] goals for work, for family life, and for personal development naturally [grow] out of this knowledge, as a powerful by-product of [our] habits of articulation.
~ Unknown
I'm as famous as I want to be.
~ Tracey Ullman
Polly belonged wholly to her time. Alert to its defects and dangers, she nevertheless had reached what she herself called an adjustment, and she was very firm in her belief that without the attainment of a state of conscious harmony with the society in which he functioned, no individual could hope to accomplish much of anything
~ Paul Bowles
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.
~ Paul Carus
no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.
~ Paulo Coelho
Saat kamu menginginkan sesuatu, seluruh alam semesta akan bersatu membantumu meraihnya.
~ Paulo Coelho
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
~ James Russell Lowell
When you stop wanting something, you get it.
~ Andy Warhol
one is that you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life "OK " as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.
~ David Foster Wallace
One, one is that you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life "OK " as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.
~ David Foster Wallace
I cannot tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
~ Chuang-tzu
Que ninguém se engane: só se consegue a simplicidade através de muito trabalho.
~ Clarice Lispector
When your life is in order, your goals are attained and your visions are realized. Your purpose is fulfilled, and you are in a complete harmonic relationship with the universe.
~ Unknown
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
~ Hermann Hesse
If you could reach your hand up far enough, could you pluck the moon from the sky? "I wouldn't play the game if I couldn't win.
~ Holly Black
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.
~ Lionel Shriver
Num país que não sabe diferir fama de infâmia, obviamente a primeira parece mais fácil de ser atingida.
~ Lionel Shriver