Quotes About Attainment

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen!

the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.

There is no pleasure in life like the joy of achievement.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

According to this view, love is simply a direction, not a place, and burns itself out with the attainment of its goal, the possession (in bed or otherwise) of the loved one.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Attainment of desirable states brings joy, failure to do so becomes sorrow.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life

The school aims to give each student a certain amount of "cultural property," and at the end of their schooling certifies the students as having at least the minimum amount.

But the whole idea of knowledge, even, or especially, of oneself and one's own inner states, attained by direct contact and not dependent on theoretical and conceptual assumptions, is absurd.

They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.

He was too simple to wonder how he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

She'd become an idea. She was an abstract thing I wanted, a thing that I already had , really, if I could keep it.

A standard is an agreed-upon level of quality or attainment. One. One level of quality or attainment that is agreed upon. In other words, when a society grows comfortable with the idea that there can be many standards, the people have, in effect, accepted the reality that there will be no standard. Anything goes. And that, my friends, is exactly what happened to a once great, once wealthy, once undefeatable world power.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

I am happy wherever I get success.