For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
- Ernest HemingwayTo 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 AllenTo begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
- James AllenSatisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas K. GandhiIn 1955, the nation was still largely industrialized, and South Dakota was an agricultural state. A high-school education was a good level of attainment. Now, to be a player in an information economy, people need more education.
- Elizabeth SmithSinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
- Gerry AdamsI fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
- Alan MatsuiIn philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
- Alexander SilbigerWhether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
- Alice RaineThe attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
- Aluf BenWe have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.
- Andrea ZahnIt is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
- Lydia Maria Francis ChildIt sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors
- Thomas Henry Huxley