(98 quotes found)
“The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon”
J. Russell Lynes
“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
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
Horace Mann
“You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.”
John Wooden
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.”
Robert Herrick
““When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.””
Carlos Castaneda
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
David Hume
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
Camille Paglia
“People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.”
Albert Bandura
“Acts of loving-kindness now supersede sacrifices as the preferred way of attaining God's forgiveness.”
Yochanan ben Zakkai
