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Life Quotes... Attitude
“She would rather light candles than curse the
darkness and her glow has warmed the world.”
Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Eleanor Roosevelt, November 7, 1962
“In the depths of winter I finally learned
there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
“Some people are always grumbling because roses
have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
Alphonse Karr
“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a
low opinion of himself.”
Anthony Trollope
“Of course there is no formula for success
except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it
brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
“I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all.
A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with
them.”
Beverly Sills
“Not a shred of evidence occurs in favor of the
idea that life is serious.”
Brendan Gill
“The Wright brothers flew through the smoke
screen of impossibility.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”
Elie Wiesel
“Funny is an attitude.”
Flip Wilson
“A man’s happiness or unhappiness depends as
much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
prisoners of their own minds.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“One’s existence should be in two parts: one
should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.”
Gustave Flaubert
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the
stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the
human spirit.”
Helen Keller
“Go confidently in the direction of your
dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not,
you are right.”
Henry Ford
“He who loses money losses much. He who loses a
friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.”
Henry H. Haskins
“He who has confidence in himself will lead the
rest.”
Horace
“Humans can learn to like anything, that’s
why we are such a successful species.”
Jeannette Desor
“[Today’s students] can put dope in their
veins or hope in their brains...If they can conceive it and believe
it, they can achieve it. They
must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will
determine their altitude.”
Jesse Jackson
“Change has considerable psychological impact
on the human mind. To the
fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse.
To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.
To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists
to make things better. Obviously,
then, one’s character and frame of mind determine how readily he
brings about change and how he reacts to change that is imposed on
him.”
King Whitney, Jr.
“When you are content to be simply yourself and
don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
Lao-Tzu
“When you reach for the stars, you may not
quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud
either.”
Leo Burnett
“If you think you can, you can. If you think
you can’t, you’re right.”
Mary Kay Ash
“I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an
are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd
rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might
have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”
Milton Berle
“A will finds a way.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The cynic knows the price of everything and
the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere's Fan"
“Don't let life discourage you; everyone who
got where he is had to begin where he was.”
Richard L. Evans
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his
grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
Robert Browning
“A bad attitude is the worst thing that can
happen to a group of people. It’s
infectious.”
Roger Allan Raby
“If you think you’re a second-class citizen,
you are.”
Ted Turner
“Every exit is an entry somewhere.”
Tom Stoppard
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the
good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you
can rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Ziggy
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