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Quotes About Attainment

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
~ Seneca the Younger
Human success is a quotation from overhead.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
~ Helen Keller
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
~ Seneca the Younger
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
~ Jascha Heifetz
you?—his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes—he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown his cowardice now;
~ Edith Wharton
was important, therefore, to overthrow superstition and to bring religion within the domain of reason. First of all the priesthood must be deprived for ever of its influence. Then an improvement of the social condition of mankind must be introduced, since the level of morality depends upon social conditions. Jesus was a social reformer. Through the attainment of "the highest perfection of which Society is capable, universal peace" was "gradually to be brought about.
~ Albert Schweitzer
For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
~ Alexander Pope
When I went platinum, you know, I had no idea that it was going to go platinum and I would have been happy if it went double glass.
~ Da Brat
As our economy advances, educational attainment is going to keep Arizona competitive.
~ Doug Ducey
I must concentrate all my efforts in the attainment of freedom for my people.
~ John Kani
It's hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That's the sweet spot.
~ Miles Teller
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
~ Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.
~ Rex Stout
My starting point is that we're already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is
~ Richard Rohr
In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which. By that logic you should settle for me. Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have.
~ Rick Remender
He had done it. He had taken hold
~ Kate DiCamillo
attained. You will be, as Paul would say, pressing on and attaining that for which Jesus Christ laid hold of you. Which brings me to my next point—an avenue of ministry. What you have learned, God intends for you to share. I have a vision, and you, Beloved, are part of that vision. Our Lord's commission in Matthew 28 was that we make disciples of all men—that we teach them
~ Kay Arthur
La paz, la justicia, la prosperidad. Cosas difíciles de lograr
~ Ken Follett
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti
~ Swami Vivekananda
An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want
~ Bob Proctor
cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.
~ David Michie
The act of persistence may be more essential to the meditator than the permanent attainment of Bliss Brain. The true hero may be she who persists, not she who wins. So in your meditation practice, fail happily. Fail an infinite number of times. Falling from ecstasy isn't the problem; it's part of the process. Choosing to elevate your state back to Bliss Brain even if you only succeed in maintaining it for a second is the crucial component of a successful meditation practice.
~ Dawson Church