Right Attitudes

You can do everything right and still fail, not just once, but overall in life. Luck is more important than we acknowledge.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach)

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
—Rachel Carson (American Biologist)

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere (Irish Poet)

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
—Eleonora Duse (Italian Actress)

Night is a world lit by itself.
—Antonio Porchia (Italian Poet)

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
—Donald Rumsfeld (American Government Official)

Many of us are more capable than some of us … but none of us is as capable as all of us!.
—Tom Wilson (American Cartoonist)

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
—Persian Proverb

Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
—Jonathan Safran Foer (American Novelist)

To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden.
—Sam Harris (American Neuroscientist, Atheist, Author)

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Monk, Mystic)

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
—William Blake (English Poet)

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
—William Jenkyn (English Clergyman)

What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.
—Walter Kaufmann (German-American Philosopher)

Commerce has made all winds her messengers; all climes her tributaries; all people her servants.
—Tryon Edwards (American Theologian)

If you don’t believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don’t think it’s enough.
—Harold Macmillan (British Head of State)

Never does a wise man commit a sin for the sake of his happiness. Never will he discard Morality because of his personal love or hatred, even though he may suffer and meet with a failure.
—Buddhist Teaching

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
—Buckminster Fuller (American Inventor, Philosopher)

The double truth of feeling totally unimportant and at the same time of uppermost importance is of great help in mastering life in it’s various aspects.
—Hans Taeger

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends is insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (French Writer)

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.
—Chuck Swindoll (American Christian Pastor)

Good taste is, of course, an utterly dispensable part of any journalist’s equipment.
—Michael Hogg (American Psychologist)

Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
—Robert Fulghum (American Unitarian Universalist Author)

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
—John Witherspoon (American Clergyman)

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
—Sophie Swetchine (Russian Mystic, Writer)

Pleasure that isn’t paid for is as insipid as everything else that’s free.
—Anita Loos (American Actor)

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
—Wilson Mizner (American Playwright)

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
—Gerald M. Weinberg (American Computer Scientist)