Attitude Quotations
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. |
| - Konrad Adenauer |
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| The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. |
| - Henri Frédéric Amiel |
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| My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. |
| - Margot Asquith |
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| Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. |
| - Brooks Atkinson |
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| Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Make your optimism come true. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. |
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| We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. |
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| When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. |
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| Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. |
| - Pearl Bailey |
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| There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. |
| - William J. Bennett |
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| Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. |
| - Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. |
| - Edward de Bono |
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| Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. |
| - Robert Brault |
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| I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. |
| - Wernher von Braun |
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| Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. |
| - H. Jackson Jr. Brown |
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| Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. |
| - Buddha |
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| The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. |
| - John Burroughs |
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| Success is due less to ability than to zeal. |
| - Charles Buxton |
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| We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. |
| - Joseph Campbell |
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| In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. |
| - Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort |
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| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. |
| - Charles Caleb Colton |
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| To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. |
| - Confucius |
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| If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... |
| - William Cowper |
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| What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. |
| - Mary Engelbreit |
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| People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. |
| - Epictetus |
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| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. |
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Men who never get carried away should be. |
| - Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. |
| - Anne Frank |
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| A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. |
| - Galileo Galilei |
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| No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. |
| - Ellen Glasgow |
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| If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Misery is a communicable disease. |
| - Martha Graham |
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| Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. |
| - Dag Hammarskjold |
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| Positive anything is better than negative thinking. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. |
| - Hubert H. Humphrey |
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| Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. |
| - Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. |
| - William James |
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| He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. |
| - Alex Karras |
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| A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. |
| - Ken, Jr. Keyes |
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| To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. |
| - Ken, Jr. Keyes |
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| The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. |
| - Eli Khamarov |
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| I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. |
| - Vince Lombardi |
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| Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. |
| - Katherine Mansfield |
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| Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? |
| - Henry Moore |
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| Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. |
| - Norman Vincent Peale |
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| The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. |
| - English Proverb |
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| Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. |
| - Italian Proverb |
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| Those who wish to sing, always find a song. |
| - Swedish Proverb |
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| I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. |
| - Arthur Rubinstein |
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| To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. |
| - George Santayana |
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| For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. |
| - Alice Walker |
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| A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. |
| - William Arthur Ward |
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| Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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| If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. |
| - Thornton Wilder |
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| Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. |
| - Mary Wollstonecraft |
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