Famous Quotes

"Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life."

Lascelles Abercrombie on Attitude

More quotes about Attitude

• "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."

  Joel Osteen on Attitude

• "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

  Michael Jordan on Attitude

• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

  Albert Einstein on Attitude

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

  Thomas Jefferson on Attitude

• "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

  Winston Churchill on Attitude

More quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie

• "The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

• "The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

• "The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

• "But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell."

• "There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."