Acquire Quotes

It is not enough to acquire wisdom,
it is necessary to employ it.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.