Right Attitudes

In small proportions we just beauties see,|And in short measures life may perfect be.
* Ben Jonson

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
* Nikolai Berdyaev

You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them – occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.
* Michelle Richmond

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
* Frederick II of Prussia

Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
* Tom Peters

Advanced countries of today have reached their present affluence through domination of other races and countries…Their sheer ruthlessness, undisturbed by feelings of compassion or by abstract theories of freedom, equality or justice, gave them a head start.
* Indira Gandhi

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
* T. Harv Eker

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
* John Weiss

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
* Stevie Wonder

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.
* Ludwig van Beethoven

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
* Golda Meir

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
* Joshua L. Liebman

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
* Ernest Hemingway

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
* Anthony de Mello

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
* Sydney Smith

One must not hold one’s self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one’s creations.
* Ludwig van Beethoven

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
* Barbara Kingsolver

Be grateful for yourself… be thankful.
* William Saroyan

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
* Bob Dylan

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
* Lisa Kirk

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
* Marlene Dietrich

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
* Albert Einstein

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
* Charles Sanders Peirce

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, |Faith means believing the unbelievable, |And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
* G. K. Chesterton

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
* Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
* Madeleine Albright

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
* Byron Katie

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
* Tom Peters

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
* Mel Brooks

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
* Sheridan Le Fanu

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
* Diana Trilling

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.
* Abraham Isaac Kook

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
* Tallulah Bankhead

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
* John Milton

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
* Saul Bellow

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
* Roger Babson

Inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature.
* Joseph Addison

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make … your life bearable.
* Francine du Plessix Gray

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
* Mario Andretti

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
* Mohandas K. Gandhi

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.
* John Dryden

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
* Marcel Proust

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
* Shakti Gawain

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is slavery.
* Maxim Gorky

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.
* Joshua L. Liebman

Bad behavior and irrational decisions are almost always caused by fear. If you want to change the behavior, address the fear.
* Seth Godin

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
* Erich Fromm

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
* Joseph Addison

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
* Roger Babson

A man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
* Saint Peter

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
* Voltaire

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.
* Jean Giono

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
* E. F. Schumacher

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
* Marie Chapian

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
* Jonathan Swift

Those who do not complain are never pitied.
* Jane Austen

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
* Scott Adams

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.
* William Laurence Sullivan

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
* Vincent van Gogh

The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
* Ramana Maharshi

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
* Vincent van Gogh

The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly.
* Ben Jonson

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
* Jane Austen

Heaven and hell is right now … You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
* George Harrison

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
* William S. Burroughs

Love that cares, listens.
* Paul Tillich

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
* Werner Heisenberg

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
* Laurence Sterne

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
* Amos Bronson Alcott

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
* Thomas Merton

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
* Henry Fielding

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish… but battle on.
* J. K. Rowling

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe — that Spirit which alone is self-subsistent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?
* Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
* Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
* Shakti Gawain

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
* Albert Schweitzer

Criticize by creating.
* Michelangelo

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
* Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
* Mohandas K. Gandhi

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
* H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
* Voltaire

The more you speak of yourself, the more likely you are to lie.
* Johann Jacob Zimmermann

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
* Saul Bellow

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.
* Carl Zuckmayer

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
* E. M. Forster

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
* Laurence Sterne

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
* Eddie Rickenbacker

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
* Erich Fromm

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
* Albert Einstein

He turns not back who is bound to a star.
* Leonardo da Vinci

We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action.
* Johann Jacob Zimmermann

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
* Omar Bradley

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
* Vincent de Paul

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
* John Stuart Mill

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.
* Sean Connery

The only way to earn what you’re really worth is to get paid based on your results.
* T. Harv Eker

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.
* Indira Gandhi

Self-understanding rather than self- condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
* Joshua L. Liebman

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
* Joseph Addison