Quotes About Attitude

What I am referring to is the Theory of Next, which states: The key to maintaining a positive mental attitude is to recognize that no one deal is that important. The person with a true positive mental attitude possesses the power to say "Next!" and quickly move on to the next deal when things don't work out.

My attitude was unyielding, solidly backed by the wisdom of the Bluff Theory, which states: The secret to bluffing is to not bluff.

By contrast, a real positive mental attitude can play a major role in one's success, but such an attitude is a result of being prepared. In other words, a true positive mental attitude is possible only through one's having the ammunition to back it up.

You develop a positive mental attitude by being good at what you do, by understanding the realities of what it takes to succeed, and by having the self-discipline to base your actions on those realities.

You have to play the cards life deals you. You can't change it and you can't run away from it.

Small alterations in behavior can sometimes jumpstart a positive step to a healthier attitude more than disputing our dysfunctional thoughts ever can.

life—"spiritual Alzheimer's": the incremental loss of the ability to be grateful and joyful about the daily gifts of life—no matter what the circumstances of our lives at that moment.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.

You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.

The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

Some people carry their life in a glass of water and splash it on everyone they meet.

You are not a mere spectator at a contest between cancer cells and killer drugs. Your attitude is important. Your will to get healthy. People give up; sometimes it seems easier to die than hang in there, go the distance... You've got to be your own hero. People need to find things inside themselves they never knew were there.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Our mission in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in the best of spirits.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.