Attainment Quotes

• There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

  

  Elsa Barker
  • Shining
  • Fields
  • Attainment

• For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.

  

  Abu Hanifa
  • Knowledge
  • Information
  • Attainment

• Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.

  

  Gangaji
  • Country
  • Simple
  • Spiritual

• The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Firsts
  • Individual
  • Social

• For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Book
  • Should
  • Attainment

• I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a new era in society will commence from the moment that aerial navigation is familiarly realised. . . . I feel perfectly confident, however, that this noble art will soon be brought home to man's convenience, and that we shall be able to transport ourselves and our families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water, and with a velocity of from 20 to 100 miles per hour.

  

  George Cayley
  • Families
  • Transport
  • Attainment

• When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

  

  Edmund Fuller
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Information

• Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Creativity
  • Unnecessary
  • Attainment

• The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Action
  • Individual
  • Citizens

• Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.

  

  Danny Villanueva
  • Cause
  • Vocabulary
  • Attainment

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