“Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.”
Seneca
AcceptanceFate
Attitude Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ATTITUDE
Attitude Quotes
Read 200 of the best attitude quotes on mindset, perspective, confidence and choosing how you respond to life, from Seneca, Shakespeare, Emerson and more.
“If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.”
Seneca
ContentmentPerspective
“Life, Lucilius, is really a battle.”
Seneca
LifeCourage
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
Marcus Aurelius
Self-WorthOthers' Opinions
“If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth.”
Marcus Aurelius
Open MindHumility
“Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty.”
Marcus Aurelius
HumilitySimplicity
“If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
GrowthHumility
“Never say of anything, 'I have lost it'; but, 'I have returned it.'”
Epictetus
LossPerspective
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epictetus
Self-ControlFreedom
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”
Lao Tzu
HumilitySuccess
“To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment; not to know and yet think we do know is a disease.”
Lao Tzu
HumilityWisdom
“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.”
Confucius
LearningHumility
“If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Confucius
PlanningForesight
“Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow that part which is little are little men.”
Mencius
GreatnessCharacter
“Irrigators guide the water; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Self-ImprovementDiscipline
“Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Self-ReflectionResponsibility
“Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Small StepsGoodness
“The man consists of his faith; that which his faith is, he is even that.”
Bhagavad Gita
FaithIdentity
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”
The Bible (Joshua 24:15)
ChoiceFaith
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”
The Bible (Proverbs 18:21)
WordsPower
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
The Bible (Philippians 4:13)
ConfidenceFaith
“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:10)
StrengthAdversity
“The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:4)
Hard WorkDiligence
“Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?”
The Bible (Matthew 6:27)
WorryPerspective
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.”
The Bible (Colossians 3:23)
EffortWork