our second page of quotations on attitude

Of all the things
you wear, your expression
is the most important.

Janet Lane

attitude

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised.
You'll get it.

Malcom Forbes

The principle of life is that life responds
by corresponding; your life becomes
the thing you have decided it shall be.

Raymond Charles Barker

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream,
so shall you become. Your vision is
the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

John Ruskin

The happiness of your
life depends upon the quality
of your thoughts. . .
take care that you entertain
no notions unsuitable to virtue
and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Our minds can shape the
way a thing will be
because we act according
to our expectations.

Federico Fellini

The way in which we think of ourselves
has everything to do with how our world sees us.

Arlene Raven

There are no menial jobs,
only menial attitudes.

William J. Bennett

I am happy and content
because I think I am.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes
more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened
and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard
you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you,
cuts you off from the good things of the world.
Expect victory and you make victory.

Preston Bradley

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
when life flows by like a song.
But the person worthwhile
is one who will smile,
when everything else goes wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of
his or her opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his or her difficulties.

Harry S. Truman

The optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier
by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

That the birds of worry and care
fly above your head,
this you cannot change.
But that they build nests in your hair,
this you can prevent.

Chinese Proverb

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Your attitude is your choice. It always is. We live in an age that has developed
the art of shifting blame to very high levels, and sometimes we get caught up
in that same tendency. "Well, if you had my job you wouldn't be so positive."
"If you had my kids, you wouldn't feel so good." "If only my boss were different,
I could be a positive person." In other words, "My bad attitude is not my fault!"
The truth is, however, your attitude and mine are always our choice. No matter
how bad things are, no one can force you to have a bad attitude if you don't want to. Now that should come as really good news because it says our attitudes don't have to be victims of our circumstances or of other people. We choose our responses.

Mary Whelchel

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company. . . a church. . . a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. . . we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string that we have, and that is our attitude. . . . I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. . . we are in charge of our attitudes.

anonymous

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks
at what happens.

John Homer Miller

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it,
for that determines our success or failure. The way you think
about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it.
You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you have a positive attitude and constantly
strive to give your best effort, eventually
you will overcome your immediate problems
and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what
you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude
while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

Jim Rohn

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important
than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances,
than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company. . . a church. . . a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot
change our past. . . we cannot change the fact
that people will act in a certain way.

We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do
is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. . .
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. . .
we are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles Swindoll

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived. And what affects them most is our attitude--the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them.
If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

Earl Nightingale

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles,
the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green. . .
the flowers are more fragrant. . . and the sun, moon and stars
all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

Orison Swett Marden

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia Maria Child

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which
comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me,"
and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

William James

What many people don't realize is that we can change our attitudes
towards life. It takes some work, but it can be done. The more
we accept other people and their faults and quirks, the less
judgmental we become. The more we decide to share the goodness
that's within us, the less selfish we become, and the less likely we
are to hoard or hang on to material things. The more we learn
about other people's emotional or physical problems, the more
understanding and compassionate we become. Your attitude is
one of your gifts to the world, all day, every day. What kind of
gift do you give? And is it a gift that remains steady
no matter what happens to you?

tom walsh

How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being
a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines
around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you
your face, but you provide the expression!

Barbara Johnson

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Chinese proverb

Begin each morning by resolving to find something in the day to enjoy.
Look into each experience which comes to you for some grain of happiness.

unattributed

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself,
for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves
can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilferd A. Peterson

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the people who
walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece
of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof
that everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the
human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set
of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl