Attitude Quotes - Page 8

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  Hans Selye

  Positive, Happiness, Stress

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• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Anger, Events

  "Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays". Book edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, 1888.

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Literature, Brilliant

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• A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Mirrors, Portraits

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 39, 1998.

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

  Alexander Pope

  Blessed, Oppressed, Dejected

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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• Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Goes On

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• All things are ready, if our mind be so.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Preparedness, Ready

  William Shakespeare (1769). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.307

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• A stumble may prevent a fall.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

  Denis Waitley

  Successful, Aptitude, Talent

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• A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

  David Bailey

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Optimistic, Blow

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• I will not take "but" for an answer.

  Langston Hughes

  Answers, Literature, Excuse

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, University of Missouri

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• I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Athlete, Great Tennis

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• I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

  Pearl Bailey

  Being Yourself, Morning, Feet

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• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

  Arnold Bennett

  Positive, Happiness, Discipline

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Men might be chastised for being promiscuous, but I think they're more likely to be given a pass, due to a "men will be men" attitude that still prevails in the Western world. They don't usually experience anything like the virulent shaming and verbal abuse that women who are sexually adventurous are sometimes prone to experiencing.

  Christine Sneed

  Thinking, Men, Abuse

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Memorial, Icy

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• The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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• What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

  Tony Robbins

  Focus, Mind, Our Actions

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• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  Zig Ziglar

  Helping, Cry, Obnoxious

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.31, Revell

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