Attainment
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.
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Attainment Quotations
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Henry Ellis
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
Thomas Huxley
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
James Allen
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Johan Huizinga
Attainment Translations
attainment in French is atteinte
attainment in German is Errungenschaft, Erreichung
attainment in Latin is adeptio
attainment in Spanish is logro
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