Attain Quotes - page 2

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. (Umberto Eco)
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before - a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish. View quote
Yukio Mishima
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. View quote
James Allen
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign. View quote
John Donne
As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing. View quote
Jack Kerouac
As it is far better to excel in any single art, than to arrive only at a mediocrity in several; so on the other hand, a moderate skill in several is to be preferred, where one cannot attain to excellency in any. View quote
Pliny the Younger
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. View quote
Herbert Simon
God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him. View quote
Ramakrishna
Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection. (Ramakrishna)
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. View quote
Emil Cioran
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. View quote
John Wesley
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt them then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace - not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. (Friedrich Schiller)
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
One can attain salvation simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord. View quote
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman