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Quotations
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 14 likes | |
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 11 likes | |
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 10 likes | |
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677, Dutch philosopher 9 likes | |
The man who says he can, and the man who says he can not are both correct. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 7 likes | |
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 7 likes | |
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 5 likes | |
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 5 likes | |
Take things always by their smooth handle. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 5 likes | |
The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 5 likes | |
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes | |
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 4 likes | |
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes | |
Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 4 likes | |
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
The past is settled, the present eludes you, think of the future. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 3 likes | |
Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 3 likes | |
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 3 likes | |
Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes | |
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 3 likes | |
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes | |
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 3 likes | |
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes | |
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes | |
I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes | |
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within. | |
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims | |
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. | |
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. | |
How one encounters reality is a choice. | |
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. | |
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. | |
Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher | |
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it. | |
Everything hinges on how you look at things. | |
Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist | |
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. | |
My standpoint is armed neutrality. | |
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. |
Ancient Greek
Indulge yourself, drink, consider the day-to-day life and leave the rest to chance. Εύφραινε σαυτόν, πίνε, τον καθ’ ημέραν βίον λογίζου σον, τα δ’ άλλα της τύχης. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alcestis 8 likes |
Proverbs
As Jake treats God, God will treat Jake. 3 likes |