Right Attitudes

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.
—Max De Pree (American Businessman)

People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”
—William Hutchinson Murray

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

I think and think, for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

A positive attitude is like a fire: unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out.
—Alexander Lockheart

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
—Marie Chapian (American Children’s Books Writer)

Corporations will take 90% less ability for 10% more attitude every day of the week.
—Mark Horstman

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
—Amos Bronson Alcott (American Teacher)

There is no baser folly than the infatuation that looks upon the transient as if it were everlasting.
—Thirukkural

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
—Unknown

Look behind the clouds. You will always find the stars.
—Evelyn Loeb

For one word a man is deemed wise and for one word he is deemed foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
—Moroccan Proverb

It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.
—Eric Lindros

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
—Eric Shinseki (American Military Leader)

^We Forget^|We ask for a piece of sand and he gives us a beach.|We ask for a drop of water and he gives us an ocean.|We ask for time and he gives us life eternal.|And it is so easy for us to fall in love with the gift|and forget the Giver.
—Edward Farrell (American Sportsperson)

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
—Louis Kahn (American Architect)

Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.
—Phillips Brooks (American Episcopal Clergyman)

Please all, and you will please none.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth; for all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of a face; and true proportions the beauty of architecture; as true measures that of harmony and music. In poetry, which is all fable, truth still is the perfection.
—Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous…
—Thomas Merton (French-born American Clergyman)

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
—Chinese Proverb

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
—Maria Mitchell

Whatever you’re ready for is ready for you.
—Mark Victor Hansen (American Public Speaker)

There is only one group of people who don’t have problems and they’re all dead. Problems are a sign of life. So the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson (American Head of State)

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the
blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
—John C. Maxwell (American Christian Professional Speaker)

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never spent the darksome hours weeping, and watching for the morrow, He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Why should we worry about what others think of us? Do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own?
—Brigham Young (American Mormon Religious Leader)

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.
—Buddhist Teaching

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Never allow the integrity of your own way of seeing things and saying things to be swamped by the influence of a master, however great.
—George Parsons Lathrop

True wealth can not be found in your bank account.|It can only be found in those you call friends.|Those with whom you share your deepest feelings.|And those who accept you for who you really are.
—Unknown

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Persian Muslim Mystic)

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
—Stephen Vincent Benet

The great thing about experience is that you can’t borrow it, buy it or steal it, you must earn it.
—Unknown

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
—Chinese Proverb

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)