Right Attitudes

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave.
* Ronald Reagan

I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
* Oscar Wilde

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
* Robert Frost

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
* Walt Disney

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
* Barbra Streisand

All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that wisdom is within ourselves … then we may know the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us.
* Swami Vivekananda

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
* George Bernard Shaw

Be eager to acquire knowledge; it does not come to thee by inheritance.
* The Talmud

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
* G. K. Chesterton

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
* Alexander Pope

Giving advice makes the recipient feel less efficacious, so weigh that against the benefit your advice will likely yield.
* Marty Nemko

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
* Mignon McLaughlin

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
* G. K. Chesterton

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In union, there is strength.
* Aesop

There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.
* Charlie Chaplin

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
* Desiderius Erasmus

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy — and when he talks about a nonscientific matter, he will sound as naive as anyone untrained in the matter.
* Richard Feynman

The madman thinks the rest of the world crazy.
* Publilius Syrus

If you want to become the kind of person that any company would kill to have as an employee, you need to be the kind of employee that’s really picky about who you align with.
* Seth Godin

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
* Benjamin Disraeli

Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter.
* Benjamin Franklin

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
* George Santayana

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
* Galileo Galilei

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
* Rene Descartes

Far more of life’s pleasures are in the process than in the outcome. Be in the moment.
* Marty Nemko

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
* Byron Katie

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
* Edward Gibbon

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
* T. S. Eliot

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.
* Brian Tracy

I wanted to indulge and explore my love of humanity and especially my concern for persons less fortunate than myself.
* Arthur Ashe

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
* Colin Powell

Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
* Jane Austen

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
* Ronald Reagan

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
* J. M. Barrie

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
* Helen Keller

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!”
* John Greenleaf Whittier

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, “Huh. It works. It makes sense.”
* Barack Obama

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
* Richard Feynman

Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
* Stephen King

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
* Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
* George Santayana

For they conquer who believe they can.
* Virgil

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
* George Bernard Shaw

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
* Bertrand A. Russell

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
* Henry David Thoreau

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.
* Franklin D. Roosevelt

One must be something, in order to do something.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must be something, in order to do something.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It all comes down to this: if your subconscious “financial blueprint” is not “set’ for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
* T. Harv Eker

Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.
* Mohandas K. Gandhi

Are you more likely to feel regret because of an action you take or because of inaction (something you do *not* do)?
* Ben Casnocha

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
* Sri Aurobindo

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
* Benjamin Franklin

The first essential, of course, is to know what you want.
* Robert Collier

Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping), spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration.
* Hans Taeger

We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those that we affect to have.
* Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards highest perfection.
* Hans Taeger

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.
* Jane Austen