Right Attitudes

Teach children to use SPICE – and use it yourself.|S-Skill building.|P-Problem solving.|I-Imagination.|C-Communication.|E-Ego building.
—Unknown

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
—Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (French Socialite)

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
—Buddhist Teaching

It would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his adult life. It makes him appreciate sight and the joy of sound.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.
—Charles M. Schwab (American Businessperson)

I don’t like to lose, and that isn’t so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don’t want a football player who doesn’t take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, Oh, well, there’s another Saturday.” The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.”
—Knute Rockne

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
—Margaret Mead (American Anthropologist)

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect)

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.
—William Winter

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Professional success requires more than talent. Among other things, it requires drive, initiative, commitment, involvement, and–above all–enthusiasm.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.
—Warren Bennis (American Scholar)

A good rule for going through life is to keep the heart a little softer than the head.
—Anonymous

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
—Benjamin Graham (American Investor)

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
—Stephen Covey (American Management Consultant)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
—Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian-born American Actor)

His labour is a chant,|His idleness a tune;|Oh, for a bee’s experience|Of clovers and of noon.
—Emily Dickinson (American Poet)

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Hold a true friend with both hands.
—African Proverb

Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
—Unknown

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
—Susan B. Anthony (American Civil Rights Leader)

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
—William Blake (English Poet)

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
—Eddie Rickenbacker (American Military Leader)

Love is always bestowed as a gift—freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
—Moshe Arens

A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.
—Chinese Proverb

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
—Maria Mitchell

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him.—A man’s true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his dwelling, or position, or external relations, but in his own essential character.—That is the realm, in which he is to live, if he is to live as a Christian man.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
—John Watson (Ian Maclaren)

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)