Quotes About Attainment

There is no disinfectant like success.

that perfection of God whereby He applies His knowledge to the attainment of His ends in a way which glorifies Him most.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Musical and spiritual attainment is the destination we all seek.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.

Knowledge will teach candour, she who aims at attainment of it will find her countenance improved as her mind is informed and her looks enabled as her heart is elevated, thus may she become a pleasing companion to the main of science, sensibility, enabled to form the minds of her kids to virtue, knowledge, not less capable or willing to superintend domestic economy of her family for having wandered beyond the limits of kitchen.

Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing.

child is not born with the tendency to neglect; it has to be acquired.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

LIFE is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves, we must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

which, according to San Juan, is the mystery of the great alchemistical transmutation; the attainment of the true stability of the psychic life. Without this internal stability, all other labor is in vain.