Quotes About Attainment

Life has no joy in it without accomplishment of purpose

One who has reached a goal no longer travels the road"(Pauline Christianity, p. 111)

When you are searching for knowledge, knowledge is also searching for you.

At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe.

Realization is… in itself the attainment of value

Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

If you can find moments of success, then you're ahead of the curve.

It is of course perfectly possible for a university, or any institution, to carry out a rigorous investigation into the historical origins of its accumulated wealth, while at the same time putting in place systems to address modern inequalities of access and attainment.

In 2010, half of Asian Americans 25 years old or older held bachelor's degrees, compared with 28 percent of the White population (Bureau of the Census 2011a).

The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.

If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

The real benefit of having goals is what you become by reaching them.