True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the... →
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Citium Zeno
Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
Peter McWilliams