All things are ready, if our mind be so.
— Henry V
Quotes About Attitude
Jean-Paul Sartre put the case for attitude most sharply: freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn held that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. Shakespeare said all things are ready, if our mind be so.
Ernest Hemingway described a man in whom everything was old except his eyes, the color of the sea, cheerful and undefeated. Eleanor Roosevelt offered a working rule: what one has to do usually can be done. Julie Andrews noticed that nobody ever looks up at chimneys, trees against the sky or the tops of buildings. Alfred Tennyson wrote, I am a part of all that I have met. Abdullah II of Jordan advised never making a decision while in a state of anger. Jean de la Bruyère defined politeness as making other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Ernest Hemingway described a man in whom everything was old except his eyes, the color of the sea, cheerful and undefeated. Eleanor Roosevelt offered a working rule: what one has to do usually can be done. Julie Andrews noticed that nobody ever looks up at chimneys, trees against the sky or the tops of buildings. Alfred Tennyson wrote, I am a part of all that I have met. Abdullah II of Jordan advised never making a decision while in a state of anger. Jean de la Bruyère defined politeness as making other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
— Sense and Sensibility
You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.
— Murder in the Mews
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Meditations
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
— Cancer Ward
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.
— Aesop's Fables
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
— The Will to Power
He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
— Great Expectations
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.
An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which it is decided upon; it depends therefore, not on the realization of the object of action, but solely on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed.
— The Moral Law: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.
— The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 36
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.
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.
— Meditations
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
— A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings