Obtain'd Quotes

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes

Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 13:39 — Steven D. Mathewson

Love was supposed to make you better, not make you hate the person you became in order to obtain it. His — Jay Crownover

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye. — Claude M. Bristol

If we introduce iron complexly into ooporphyrin, we obtain haemin. — Hans Fischer

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. — John Heywood

The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Shelley

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception. — George Harrison

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning. — Aristotle.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. — Andrew Jackson

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. — Temple Grandin

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance. — Henry Ward Beecher

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. — George Bernard Shaw

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. — Dan Brown

Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

People like best what is hard for them to obtain. — Hermann Hesse

Knowledge is the ability to obtain, process and use information, so that it benefits you as an asset and not a liability — Kloby

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. — Boris Spassky

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. — James Allen

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others. — Earl Nightingale

With these three qualities, it cannot be made the subject of description; and hence we blend them together and obtain The One. — Lao-Tzu

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. — Horace

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain. — Thomas More

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. — George Weah

Those wise ones who see that consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all consciousness beings obtain eternal peace. — Anonymous

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities. — Bela Kiraly

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. — J. Paul Getty

No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
[Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.] — Thomas A Kempis

Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet. — John Philip Sousa

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor. — Mahmud Tarzi

A trophy's value isn't measured by the worth of its metal but by the amount of work that's required to obtain it — Johannes Schiefer

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. — Walter Scott

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value. — Thomas Paine

No one borrows money for the sake of the money itself; money is only the medium by which to obtain possession of products. — Frederic Bastiat

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn. — Pat Conroy

LUKE But unto Tosche Station would I go, And there obtain some pow'r converters. Fie! — Ian Doescher

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day. — Honore De Balzac

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan. — Mahatma Gandhi

I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results. — Francois Hollande

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. — Thomas Becket

To obtain something, something of equal value must be lost. — Hiromu Arakawa

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains. — Albert Einstein

Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less? — Henry David Thoreau

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology. — John Harsanyi

If we do not fight to protect and preserve the freedom our ancestors died to obtain for us, our children will die to get it back. — M.J. Leonard

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. — Jim Morrison

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. — Philip Neri

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet

Nurses who determine the need for restraints must obtain a physician's order as soon as possible. — Janice Rider Ellis

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1] — Arthur Schopenhauer

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I — Alexandre Dumas

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal ... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God. — John Wycliffe

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. — Richard Alleine

To attain power, one must first obtain riches, for almost everything of the world revolves about it. — Ndiritu Wahome

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours. — Maria Edgeworth

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice S. Rossi

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling. — Paul Cezanne

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. — Jacques Pierre Brissot

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come. — Isaac Watts

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. — Gautama Buddha

We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor. — T. S. Eliot

It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it. — Ian Gregoire

Commitment isn't measured by our belief itself or the depth of conviction regarding the belief, but by what we're willing to sacrifice to obtain it, — Scott Hildreth

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power! — John Webster

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. — John Wesley

When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here." — Cherie Carter-Scott

Never let anyone steal your inner peace because it's too costly to obtain and much too priceless ever to replace. — Timothy Pina

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it. — Lisa Bloom

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker. — Alexander Smith

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! — Hermann Hesse

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied. — Daniel Diez Ginestar

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. — The Tru Sum

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Oliver Sacks

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them. — Aristotle.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. — Euripides

When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we
obtain a set of numbers we call integers. That — Judith Sowder

That loving and being loved by Jesus matters more than all that the world can obtain or contain. — Beth Moore

It doesn't matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That's just the way life is. When — John C. Maxwell

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. — John C. Calhoun

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Government corruption made it possible to obtain authentic passports and visas, which were much more reliable than fake ones. — Kenneth Eade

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. — Bertrand Russell

From our behavior, we obtain certain results, and these results reinforce our beliefs. — David W. Earle

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly. — Chris Prentiss

power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep. — Moises Naim

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. — Morihei Ueshiba

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail. — Saint Ignatius

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon

In navigating change, some of us take temporary actions and expect to obtain
permanent results. — Ngina Otiende

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain. — Samuel Johnson

The ultimate end ... is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. — Aristotle.