#acquire

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ↗

— Felix Adler

#be real #ceaseless #efforts #engaged #ethical

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#attention #average #average man #crazy #dream

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#a good thing #acquire #after #early #give

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#acquire #apply #better #continuously #develop

Reality is an acquired taste. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#acquired taste #reality #taste

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

#age #discipline #save #thought #through

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#difficult #difficult things #easily #ever #only

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#education #grade #higher #method #prejudices

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#being #equal #evident #far #half

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#difficult #first #guinea #million #money