Quotes About Attitude

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects.

You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

have been blessed because I have been poor—poor enough to swallow my pride and humbly ask for assistance. The result? Not merely success in reaching my occupational goals, but lasting friendships with those who saved the day for me. So, don't become defensive about your lack by trying to gloss over it or pretending the problem doesn't exist. Chances are that such an attitude will end in futility and you'll

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness...

Circumstances and situations do color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," wrote Shakespeare. For example:

One doesn't have to follow every proposition, make every connection-the intuitive or affective reading may be more practical anyway. What if one accepted the invitation-come as you are-and read with a different attitude, which might be more like the way one attends to poetry? Then difficulty would not prevent the flashes of understanding that we anticipate in the poets we love, difficult though they may be.

The implication is that if you want to quell your inner jerk and avoid spreading (and catching) this form of asshole poisoning, use ideas and language that frame life in ways that will make you focus on cooperation.

If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you are right.

Other studies suggest that some people are grumpy, insulting, or overbearing primarily because they are insecure about their abilities and prestige. This is a hallmark of petty tyrants, which

Boredom is the attitude that occurs when we fail to embrace the privilege of living a heaven-driven life. Laziness is what happens when we have no compelling cause to energize our day.

His point is that we are what we think, and our lives run in the direction of our thoughts. If we think angry thoughts, we'll be angry; if we think positive thoughts, we'll be positive; if we think negative thoughts, we'll be negative. The mind is a garden, and we have to cultivate it, and we are responsible for the kind of seed we sow into the furrows of our mind.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. (Proverbs 23:7 NASB)

A grateful mind is a great mind,'' and the Bible agrees. There are 138 passages of Scripture on the subject of thanksgiving, and some of them are powerfully worded. Colossians 3:17 says: ''And whatever you do in word or deed, do

For as we think in our hearts so are we.

Our thoughts are the most important thing about us. All that we achieve or fail to achieve is the direct result of our thinking. Our thoughts are like seeds that produce crops.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. —William James

Based on firsthand experience, it was apparent to me that the most relevant factor in my ongoing dilemma was my posture, a conclusion that produced the Posture Theory, which states: It's not what you say or do that counts, but what your posture is when you say or do it.