“Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:2)
HumilityPride
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.
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
William Shakespeare
LifeIrony
“The better part of valour is discretion.”
William Shakespeare
WisdomCourage
“Nothing will come of nothing.”
William Shakespeare
EffortAction
“I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.”
William Shakespeare
CourageIntegrity
“They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”
William Shakespeare
BalanceModeration
“Men of few words are the best men.”
William Shakespeare
SilenceCharacter
“Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.”
William Shakespeare
DoubtWisdom
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-BeliefGenius
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open MindGrowth
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PerspectiveBalance
“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-TrustCourage
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
TruthPriorities
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
Mark Twain
DreamsLife
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
Oscar Wilde
AmbitionWitty
“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”
Benjamin Franklin
CharacterQuality
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”
Benjamin Franklin
HonestyIntegrity
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Samuel Johnson
ConfidenceSuccess
“Every man bears the whole form of the human condition.”
Michel de Montaigne
HumanityUnderstanding
“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
JudgmentSelf-Reflection
“We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
PerspectiveHappiness
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
Publilius Syrus
FlexibilityPlanning
“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
Publilius Syrus
Small ThingsInfluence
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Kahlil Gibran
DoubtFaith
“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
LifeCourage