Definition of Attain

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Attain

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

To overtake.

To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

Attainment.

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Attain Quotations

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
Wayne Dyer

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Kahlil Gibran

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.
Bear Bryant

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren Kierkegaard

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
James Allen

Attain Translations

attain in Afrikaans is verwerf, presteer, bereik, behaal
attain in Dutch is buit maken, verkrijgen, behalen
attain in Finnish is saavuttaa, hankkia
attain in French is atteignons, atteignez, atteignent, atteindre
attain in German is erreichen, erreichen, erlangen, gelangen
attain in Italian is ottenere, conseguire
attain in Latin is pervenio
attain in Portuguese is adquirir, alcance, obter
attain in Spanish is lograr

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