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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest 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 the vision of That Which Is.

We will have bigger bureaucracies bigger labor unions and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment education creates dangerous stupefying conformity.

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

Learning is not attained by chance it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me who came from nowhere.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death you'll never attain enlightenment.

Great dad. Yeah he would ask me for money on birthdays and you know inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

These rules may seem simple enough but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies continual growth constant change the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained progress stops.

If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks and how you can supposedly attain them is almost entirely female-driven.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then by simply changing the key we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

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.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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