“What's done cannot be undone.”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoAcceptance
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.
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
William Shakespeare
TimeRegret
“Let the world slide.”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoCalm
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!”
William Shakespeare
CompassionJoy
“Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Independent ThinkingConfidence
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CourageFear
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HonestyFunny
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
PrioritiesLife
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
Mark Twain
PrinciplesIrony
“Glass, china, and reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.”
Benjamin Franklin
ReputationWisdom
“A man in a passion rides a mad horse.”
Benjamin Franklin
Self-ControlAnger
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”
Samuel Johnson
HabitsDiscipline
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
Michel de Montaigne
BeliefHumility
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
Human NatureWitty
“Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
GratitudeWisdom
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Publilius Syrus
ActionChange
“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Publilius Syrus
PracticeLearning
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
Thomas Carlyle
Self-AwarenessHumility
“Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
Swami Vivekananda
TruthCourage
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Jane Austen
PrideWitty
“Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
StrengthEndurance
“Then, welcome each rebuff that turns earth's smoothness rough, each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!”
Robert Browning
AdversityGrowth
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
DoubtFaith
“If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.”
Rudyard Kipling
Self-TrustConfidence
“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll.”
William Ernest Henley
CourageResilience