Attainments Quotes

“We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed to create health, and every trace of sickness will soon disappear. When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in higher attainments and in greater achievements that all thought of failure is forgotten, all the forces of mind will begin to work for the promotion of those attainments and achievements. The person will be gaining ground every day, and greater success will positively follow.”
― Christian D. Larson

“(I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens

“The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance