“It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.”
Aristotle
“Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.”
Felix Marti-Ibanez
“I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.”
William Allingham
“There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in life.”
Cherryn Wilder
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain”
Mark Twain
“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction”
Charles Kendall Adams
“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.”
William Arthur Ward
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