Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
If we can acquire an attitude of self-belief, then we will surely determine our future actions and our future life opportunities.
A brick could be used as motivation to acquire more bricks. Hey, I’m just trying to help here. Don’t shut me out by building a wall between us.
Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either acquired your soul or devoured all your joyful emotions.
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
Never forget the value of time. You can acquire much in life. By comparison, time is fixed. Use it wisely.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
... until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...
To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.
