Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
We are undoing a pattern. . . It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. . . . Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.
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.
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.
Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.
Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
