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Letter "A" » attain
«The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Learning,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
attain
«The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.»
Author: Marshal Ferdinand Foch
| Keywords:
attain, discernment, enable, execution, for good, fundamental, lastly, method, singleness, stubborn
«The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
attain, a people, height, heroism, ridicule
«To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
actually, alignment, attain, at last, beliefs, bringing, inner, Inner peace, possessions
«Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of Karma does he ever hesitate.»
«The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
admires, attain, impression, standards, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
«You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows / and has always known / that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
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«The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Mankind
| Keywords:
attain, attains, longs, significance
«Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
attain, caprices, felicities, felicity, fortunate, heeded, heeds, satisfy
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