Attain

Famous quotes containing the word attain:

“To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,
That have but labored to attain this hour.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)