Top 589 Attained Quotes & Sayings

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

Health is not attained in a day, you have to be consistent.

Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind.

In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

Karan Johar finally attained puberty at 42

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

I have attained a fair degree of success. I don't have any regrets.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not through showmanship. They who practice deceit, attain not Deliverance in the Hereafter. They do so only to accomplish the affairs of the world and even the kings worship them for their appearance! But through showmanship, God is attained not, howsoever one searches. He who subdues his mind alone recognizes the Transcendent God.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.