There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. -
Khalil Gibran
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. -
Miguel de Cervantes
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. -
Leo Tolstoy
There is merit without attainment, but no attainment without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du mérite sans élévation, mais il n'y a point d'élévation sans quelque mérite] -
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. -
Samuel Smiles
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. -
Stanley Baldwin
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. -
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Believe in yourself, your neighbours, your work, your ultimate attainment of more complete happiness. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn. -
Bertie Charles Forbes
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. -
Susan Sontag
