"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
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"After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset."
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"If you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it."
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"My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps."
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"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity."
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"No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government."
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"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude."
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"I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it."
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"I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude. You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone."
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"Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though."
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"Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task."
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"Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live."
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"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."
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"We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view."
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"The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people."
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"The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you."
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"We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes."
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"Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about."
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"I always knew I was destined for greatness."
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