Obtain Quotes

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Give, Liberty, Deserve

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Peace, Mind, Envy

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama

Peace, Until, Ourselves

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

Long, Order, Unknown

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Person, Lazy

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Albert Camus

God, Impossible, Turn

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine

Value, Cheap, Esteem

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine

Esteem, Lightly, Easily

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Best, Truth

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Freedom, Long

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great, Power, Him

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

Power, Himself, Gods

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell

Fate, Seems, Ideals

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Hillary Clinton

Political, Violence, Effort

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

Friendship, Place, Difficult

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
Cecil Rhodes

Time, Find, Same

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

Peace, Sometimes, Blood

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

Great, Intellect, Using

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois

Men, Minds, Lives

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

Desire, Achieve, Aspire

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
William Ames

Faith, God, May

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky

Self, Execution, Precision

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus

Men, Give, Goal

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson

Time, Nothing, Give

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
Gregg Easterbrook

Happiness, Money, Everyone

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing

Others, Deserve, Fame

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus

Work, Great, Important

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus

Life, Men, Death

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Frederick William Robertson

Good, Wisdom, Strong

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
Yasser Arafat

Goal, Sometimes, Order

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Obtain Definition

Booker T. Washington

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us