Quotes about Attitude

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: 'Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Proverbs 23:7 says, "As he thinks within himself, so he is.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is (Proverbs 23:7). T

It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.