Attitude
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. - William Barclay
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of lfie before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Life unexamined, is not worth living. - Democritus
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
The truly important things in life -- love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked - Pablo Casals
Those who fear what they should not, and who do not fear what they should…go the downward path. (from The Path of Perfection) - The DHAMMAPADA
The real issue is not whether to grow, it is how to grow and for what purpose. - Anonymous
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things. - Bruce Barton
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord Acton
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. - Socrates
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. - Cicero
When you are alone you are all your own. - Leonardo da Vinci
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. - Leonardo da Vinci
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge
Better by far that you should forget and smile, than you should remember and be sad. - Christina Rossetti
Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. - Mary Baker Eddy
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. - Julius Caesar
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. - Ayn Rand
Anybody can do anything that he imagines. - Henry Ford
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Huxley
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill
In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - S.I. Hayakawa
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. - Louis Nizer
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it's probably deserved. - Russell Lynes
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. - Spinoza
Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts. - Madame de Stael
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. - James K. Feibleman
Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. - Francis De Sales
What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. - Lewis L. Dunnington
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mrs. Ernest Hemingway
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans
There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so. - Anthony A. Cooper-Lord Shaftesbury
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. - Helen Keller
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. - Ovid
Use soft words in hard arguments. - H.G. Bohn
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. - Samuel Butler
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. - Charles William Stubbs
Sanity is a madness put to good uses. - George Santayana
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. - Joseph Murphy
The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. - Melvin J. Evans
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert L. Stevenson
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. - Blaise Pascal
They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. - Captain James
There can be no offense where none is taken. - Japanese proverb
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. - John Milton
A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. - Ayn Rand
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it. - Ayn Rand
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. - Hasidic saying
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. - Thomas Crum
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. - Clarence Darrow, lecture, University of Chicago, 1
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life. - Seneca
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. - John F. Kennedy
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. - John F. Kennedy
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow) - Horace
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible... - Friedrich Nietzsche
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. - Sir William Osler
Gentlemen, - Farewell, and take with you into the struggle the watchword of the good old Roman - Aequanimitas. - Sir William Osler
I was never less alone than when by myself. - Edward Gibbon
In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel. - Ambrose Bierce
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks
The highest of distinctions is service to others. - King George VI
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade. - Langenhoven
We need to be grateful for many things that did not happen. - Langenhoven
To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. - Henry David Thoreau
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? - Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. - Steven Covey
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
There's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. - Jonathan Larson
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out. - Frank A. Clark
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. - Henry Ward Beecher
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. - Henry Ward Beecher
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself - forget about the impression you are trying to make. - Dale Carnegie
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. - Pearl S. Buck
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou
Men are not worried by things that happen, but by their thoughts about those things. - Epictetus
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. - Sydney Smith
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson
If peace be in the heart the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty. - C.F. Richardson
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. - George Horace Lorimer
He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions. - J.F. Clarke
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller
Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. - The Bible, Ephesians 5:15,16 NIV
Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. - Turkish proverb
Resolved - never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. - Jonathan Edwards
Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. - Lloyd John Ogilvie
Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them. - Julie Burchill
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. - Mary Kay Ash
Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy! - Author Unknown
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. - Calvin Coolidge
Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov
People think of the Golden Rule as something mild and innocuous, like a baby lamb. But when they suffer an infringement of it, they think they've been mauled by a panther. - Francis Wren
No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood. - Anonymous
Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists... this knowledge, this feeling, is the centre of true religiousness. - Albert Einstein
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. - Leo Buscaglia
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. - John Milton
Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Gill Atkinson
If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing: you're right. - Henry Ford
Sometimes the best way to deal with everyday life, is to lay down on your mat and take a nap. - Joyce Bartels
Never frown beacuse you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. - Justine Milton
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. - Bill Cosby
A lot of guilt comes from the feeling that we have more influence than we really do. - Dan Gottlieb
And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving... - Marilyn Thomsen
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. - Theodore Roethke
When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup. - Sam Lefkowitz
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! - Anne Frank
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson
The best work is done in defiance of management. - Bob Woodward
Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. - St. Augustine
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life. - Scott Murray
... You do what you must do, and you do it well. - Bob Dylan
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
If i were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disaoppoints, possibility never. (from EITHER/OR Volume 1, Chapter titled Diapsalmata) - Soren Kierkegaard
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. - Og Mandino
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. - Roy L Smith (American Clergyman)
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. - from 'The Neurotic's Notebook' - Mignon McLaughlin
The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world. (1875-1941 - English mystic) - Evelyn Underhill
Expectations are the thief of God's blessings. - Constance K. Hardy
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. - Bernard Bailey
It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire
An egotist is a person who plays too big a part in his own life. - Dan Bennett
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger
Bitterness is the poison we drink hoping to kill someone else. - Carol Gemmell
Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible. And suddenly, you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - but, most of all, endurance. (quoted by Jordon Elgrably in Paris Review) - James Baldwin
Nobody cares how much you know til they know how much you care. - Author unknown
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Dwight
Sometimes hurdles are actually openings you may need to crawl through. - Maria Charbonneau
If quiters never win and winners never quit, who came up with quit while your ahead? - Douglas King Jr.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) - George Mallory
Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'these things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say 'these things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us. - Ethel Merman
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katherine Hepburn
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein