All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Attitude”

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“Every wall is a door.”
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
“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.”
“Be an opener of doors”
“Whatever limits us we call fate.”
“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.”
“The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.”
“To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.”
“If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.”
“Power dwells with cheerfulness.”
“Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.”
“Be brave enough to do the loving thing.”
“Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.”

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