Quotes About Attitude

The way people see others is a reflection of themselves: If I am a trusting person, I will see others as trustworthy. If I am a critical person, I will see others as critical. If I am a caring person, I will see others as compassionate.

My favorite cartoon character, Charlie Brown, displayed an attitude with which many of us can identify. He and Linus were talking about their problems. Linus said, "I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today." Charlie Brown replied, "No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better." What

How do you cultivate optimism? By learning the secret of contentment. If you can learn that, then no matter what happens to you, you can weather the storm and build on the good you find in any situation.

They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive attitude. At the very least, these things keep their personal momentum going. At their very best, they make every day a masterpiece.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

CHOOSE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW YOU VIEW YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us—it's the spirit within us.

stress this enough: if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away.

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.

The happiest people in life don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just try to make the best of everything. They're like the person in a remote village going to a well every day to get water who says, "Every time I come to this well, I come away with my bucket full!" instead of, "I can't believe I have to keep coming back to this well to fill up my bucket!

Change begins on the inside.

What's the best solution to guard against becoming a complainer? Cultivate gratitude. It is by far the most effective antidote to a negative attitude and a complaining spirit.

There's only one thing more contagious than a good attitude—and that's a bad attitude.

There was in her character a trace of intransigence that someone shrewder would have concealed.

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.

The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people's respect for me would vanish if what I did was second rate. And while I accept that this "perfectionism" is likely to stimulate the production of better work, it doesn't, unfortunately, go hand in hand with a relaxed and happy attitude to life.

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

Negative thinking only leads you to the darkest path and complicates the problems.

We may not be able to prevent the stormy times in our lives, but we can always dance in the puddles!

The worst and the best things have the tendency of occupying the same positions in our minds, so incline your hearts to the best things.

Life isn't always the way it's suppose to be, it's just the way it is. The way we cope with it is what makes the difference.

If the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. But when it unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.