Attain Quotes
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
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As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
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I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.
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Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.
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A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
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To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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We can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.
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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
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Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
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Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.
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To want is more than to attain.
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The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
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Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.
