Quotes About Attitude

Either you're born crazy or you're born boring.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

This operating power of our minds is called joriki. It is, in short, the operation of no-self. Master Sogaku writes about it as follows, "The right mind operates at each time and in each place to make you take the right attitude and act properly without deviating from the Way.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about her. The woman who has mastered the secret will not wait for ideal surroundings; she will not wait until next year, next decade, until she gets rich, until she can travel abroad … but she will make the most out of life today, where she is. Paradise is here or nowhere. You must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Never complain about what you permit to be.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Losers sulk; posers talk; winners walk - choose wisely.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Pressure squeezes effort out of winners and excuses out of losers.

A bad attitude is like a dirty diaper, life stinks until its changed.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.