#attain

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#art #attained #fool #hast #imagining

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. ↗

— Joseph Story

#best #fidelity #first #good #good government

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#benefit #great #great problems #grim #her

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#before #hard #hard work #i #roles

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. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

#earth #hidden #like #maintaining #read

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

#absolute truth #aim #broken #content #must

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. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#away #bit #enough #every #far

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

— Arnold Palmer

#difficult #gracefully #grow #happily #old

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

— Pope John Paul II

#cannot #create #intends #justice #kills