Sayings and Quotes

I hope these 4th of July quotes touch you all like it did me.. Some really touching patriotic sayings for the fourth of July..

“America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.”
~Obama

“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”
~George William Curtis

“Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.”
Mark Twain.. Which is quite untrue, though this can be said of politics.

“Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr

“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest”
~ Samuel Johnson

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ”
~ George Bernard Shaw

“Better to starve free than be a fat slave.”
~Aesop

“Freedom’s natural day is here.Fire the guns and shout for freedom,See the flag above unfurled!Hail the stars and stripes forever,Dearest flag in all the world.”
~ Florence A. Jones

“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.”
~ Ambrose Bierce

“Freedom is not enough.”
~Lyndon B. Johnson

“The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.”
~ Homer

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. ”
~ John F. Kennedy

“The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happy Independence Day folks…

Here are some Attitude quotes and positive attitude sayings to help you think in the right direction, because afterall, attitude is a mindset.As rightly said below:

“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. “~William J. Bennett

“It is your attitude more than your aptitude that will help you climb the altitude, said a wise man once.”

“Even if you don’t know much, if you have the right attitude, people will have more confidence in you than someone who knows much but hasn’t the attitude.”

“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ”
~Annie Gottlier

“So to succeed in life, all else being equal, it is attitude that is the most important.”

“You know that something will get done if it will be done, and will go wrong if it had to, then better get it wrong or get it done with a positive attitude?”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ”
~Oscar Wilde

“Here are some quotes that might inspire you to grow a positive attitude..”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ”

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ”
~C.C. Scott

“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ”

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
~Confucius

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. ”

“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ”

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
~Vince Lombardi’s funny attitude quote

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.”
~Ellen Glasgow

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
~Robert Brault

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

Do add your favorite attitude quotes below.

Some of my favorite character quotes.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny

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“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character”
~T. Alan Armstrong

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination.”
~John Luther

“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”

“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.”

“Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”

“What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.”

“The (ancient) Greeks believed that character was formed in part by fate and in part by parental training, and that character was exemplified not only by acts of bravery in battle but in the habits of daily conduct.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.”

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty more than bitterness makes the heart break.”

“Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.”

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
~ Shaquille ONeal

” Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. ”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher

“Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion”
~Dewey Henize