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- Nov 07, 2020
Attaining Quotes
On the long climb toward what matters.
Attaining something meaningful, whether peace, stability, or a personal goal, rarely happens quickly. These quotes reflect that climb. See more on our Important page.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
- Perseverance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to stress out if I wasn't attaining my goals by their due date, but not anymore.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every hard working New Yorker, regardless of their income, race, or gender deserves an equal shot at attaining retirement security.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020