I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.
All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.
Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
To obtain something, something of equal value must be given.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.
People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort of labour that they're going to be able to obtain.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
It is simply unacceptable for people to sneak into this country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued I.D. on Friday, head for the welfare office on Monday, and cast a vote on Tuesday.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.
He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.
Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on our soil.
We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.
Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
I go out there and live or die by the sword and I'm willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.
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