Definition of Attainment

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Attainment

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.

That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.

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Attainment Quotations

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Gandhi

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Allen

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
Gerry Adams

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
Thomas Huxley

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Lane Allen

Attainment Translations

attainment in French is atteinte
attainment in German is Errungenschaft, Erreichung
attainment in Latin is adeptio
attainment in Spanish is logro

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