Right Attitudes

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
—Mike Ditka (American Sportsperson)

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
—George Horace Lorimer (American Editor)

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
—Jim Carrey (Canadian Actor)

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of wisdom.
—Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (English Politician)

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me.
—Henri Rousseau (French Painter)

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
—Karlfried Graf Durckheim (German Zen Teacher)

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
—Louis Auchincloss (American Novelist, Lawyer)

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (American Jewish Rabbi)

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.
—Sun Tzu (Chinese Military Leader)

A good friend is worth pursuing… but why would a good friend be running away?
—Ashleigh Brilliant (British Cartoonist)

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
—Fulton J. Sheen (American Catholic Religious Leader)

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” my dad would reply, “we’re raising boys.”
—Harmon Killebrew (American Baseball Player)

Love without attachment is light.
—Norman O. Brown (American Philosopher)

A well-aimed spear is worth three.
—Ted Williams (American Sportsperson)

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
—John Aubrey (English Antiquarian, Writer)

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
—C. Northcote Parkinson (British Historian)

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
—Robert Owen (British Social Reformer)

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
—William Styron (American Novelist)

Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked “Take it or leave it. “
—Arthur Seldon (British Economist)

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau (French Mime Artist)

Someone has written, “Love is a verb”. It requires doing – not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
—David B. Haight (American Mormon Leader)

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
—Ralph Washington Sockman (American United Methodist Pastor)

This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition.
—John Kerry (American Politician)