"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

Attitude, Difficulties

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

Exlpore more Attitude quotes

"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Attitude, Lovers, Quarrel, World

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Attitude, Life, Development, Body, Will

"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Attitude, Credit, Man, May, Spirits

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Attitude, Mind

"It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Attitude, Positive, Negative, Thought, Mind

"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Attitude, Influence, Inspirational, Positivity

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Attitude, Men, Consideration, Needs

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Attitude, Men, Circumstances, Man

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Attitude, Folk, Hesitation

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

Mark Twain, American Author

Attitude, Sight

Explore more quotes by Harry S. Truman

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

Office

"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."

Politics

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

Man

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

Economy

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

Leadership

"It sure is hell to be president."

Hell

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

Battle

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

Life

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

Friendship

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Nation