Attain Quotes
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Caspar David Friedrich
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Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
Petrarch
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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.
Albert Camus
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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.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
Salvador Dali
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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.
Christian D. Larson
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“Once I journeyed far from home To the gate of holy Rome; There the Pope, for my offence, Bade me straight, in penance, thence Wandering onward, to attain The wondrous land that height Cokaigne.”
Wace
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The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
George Saintsbury