Acquire
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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Acquire Quotations
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser
Acquire Translations
acquire in Afrikaans is verwerf, behaal
acquire in Dutch is buit maken, verkrijgen, behalen
acquire in Finnish is hankkia
acquire in German is erwerben, erwerben, anschaffen
acquire in Italian is acquistare, procurare
acquire in Latin is adepto, usurpo
acquire in Portuguese is adquira, obter, adquirir
acquire in Spanish is adquiridor, adquirir, captar, adquisidor
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