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Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and...

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..

Quote by Aristotel about happiness, virtue, perfection, being, good, good luck

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the...

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

Quote by Gerry Adams

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of...

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Quote by James Lane Allen about purpose, failure

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to...

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about vision, light, experience, mind

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about hunger, weakness, heads, time, man

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the...

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about impossible, absurd, order

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about laziness, wish, good, good luck

Natural ability without education has more often attained...

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about ability, education, glory, virtue

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Quote by William Falconer

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought...

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Quote by Henry Ford about wealth, happiness

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in...

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life

The job you want is well paying, interesting, fun, ...

The job you want is well paying, interesting, fun, rewarding, conveniently located, or attainable; pick one.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about purpose, work

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old...

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Quote by Arnold Palmer about old, olderness

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence...

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about justice, violence

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be...

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about peace, violence

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the...

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Quote by Elie Wiesel about word, deeds, grace, quality

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who...

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert about art, artists, perfection

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Quote by Khalil Gibran about opinion

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