Attainment Quotes - Page 6

• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Life, Wise, Selfish

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• The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Writing, Successful

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• Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Differences, Devotion To God

  James Hudson Taylor (1900). “Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Way, Success And Failure

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Government, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.151, Penguin Books India

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• How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Disappointment, Giving, Mind

  Sir Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, William C. Barker (1856). “First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, An Exploration of Harar”, p.364

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• I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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• There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

  Major Taylor

  Opportunity, Moral, Granted

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• A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

  Max Planck

  Acquisition, Scientist, Steady

  Max Planck (1936). “The Philosophy of Physics”, New York : W. W. Norton, Incorporated

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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• Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Being Yourself, World, Want

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• There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Desire, Directors, Artistic

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• To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Soul, Special

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• At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

  Henry George

  Spring, Real, Past

  "Progress and Poverty". Book by Henry George, 1879.

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• Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ends, Method, Vigorous

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• There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service revolves around the attainment of adequate diversification, the preservation of a long-term outlook, the ease of handling investment decisions and mechanics, and most importantly, the avoidance of the patently inferior investment techniques which seem to entice some individuals.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Decision, Important

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• If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

  Sivananda

  Names, Goal, Achievement

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• Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Reality, Two, Quality

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• We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Horizon, Levels

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• The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Blood, Political

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• I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Men, Names

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• The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Proportion, Being At Peace

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• I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Selfish, Teaching

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

  James F. Cooper

  Mind, Lasts, Ability

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