Attitude Quotes

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

Henry David Thoreau

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

Oscar Wilde

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Men are tormented with the opinions they have of things, and not by the things themselves.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”

Samuel Johnson

“Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.”

Horace

“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”

Publilius Syrus

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together.”

William James

“In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

Mark Twain

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”

Charles Dickens

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

Jane Austen

“Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.”

Charlotte Brontë

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

George Eliot

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.”

Kahlil Gibran

“You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere.”

Chuang Tzu

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

Voltaire