Definition of Acquire

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Definition of Acquire
	Acquire To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. Related Definitions: Acquire, As, Bad, By, Gain, Get, Good, Knowledge, One, Or, Own, Riches, Skill, Title, To

Acquire Quotations

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

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

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Acquire Translations

acquire in Afrikaans is verwerf, behaal
acquire in Dutch is buit maken, verkrijgen, behalen
acquire in Finnish is hankkia
acquire in German is erwerben, erwerben, anschaffen
acquire in Italian is acquistare, procurare
acquire in Latin is adepto, usurpo
acquire in Portuguese is adquira, obter, adquirir
acquire in Spanish is adquiridor, adquirir, captar, adquisidor

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