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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

G. K. Chesterton The Defendant (1901)

The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a Bodhisattva, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace (1988)

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the purpose in their minds.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Lin Yutang Remarks of Famous People (1965)

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

A man's attitude goes some ways, the way his life will be.

David Lynch Mulholland Drive (2001)

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

Brian Tracy Achieving Your Promises : How To Reverse Your Circumstances And Realize Your Dreams (2008)

In inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heave, spreading itself like oil over the trouble sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Washington Irving

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill Attitude : The Power of Positivity (2011)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goall nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Epictetus Victims and Values : A History and a Theory of Suffering (1990)

My attitude is to give everyone some of my time. If I can contribute in any way to their happiness, that makes me happy.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

I contend to be a fighter for pureness and truth. I hesitate, because I am afraid of you and your attitude towards truth. To say the truth about you is dangerous to life.

Wilhelm Reich

A healthy attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Tom Stoppard There Will Always be a Tree (2010)

I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive.

William James The Letters of William James (1920)

The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut off the mind from new stimuli. Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age.

John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Rob Zombie

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