Quotes About Attitude

Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.

Azi ii lumea rea si femeile-s fudule.

enjoyment, as we have seen, does not depend on what you do, but rather on how you do it.

One of the simplest ways to decrease the frequency of negative thoughts is by selectively moderating expectations.

Many lives are disrupted by tragic accidents, and even the most fortunate are subjected to stresses of various kinds. Yet such blows do not necessarily diminish happiness. It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

The traits that mark an autotelic personality are most clearly revealed by people who seem to enjoy situations that ordinary persons would find unbearable. Lost

Si te sientes dolido por las cosas externas, no son éstas las que te molestan, sino tu propio juicio acerca de ellas.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

As Francis Bacon remarked, quoting from a speech by the Stoic philosopher Seneca, "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Unselfconscious self-assurance. [...] one common attitude shared by such people was the implicit belief that their destiny was in their hands. [...] This attitude occurs when a person no longer sees himself in opposition to the environment, as an individual who insists that his goals, his intentions take precedence over everything else.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus

Marcus Aurelius wrote: "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Yet such blows do not necessarily diminish happiness. It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

The whine of the victim is absent from his repertoire—as from that of practically all the individuals we interviewed.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Martin Luther supposedly said, "You might not be able to stop the birds from landing on your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

Drama-free" doesn't mean getting rid of the drama or the people who create it. It means being free from its debilitating effects in our lives. This book is about getting free—not letting our lives and attitudes be controlled by the choices of others.

A reaction is how we feel; a response is what we do.

The event isn't really the problem; it's our response to the event.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another