Quotes About Attitude

In The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas says, "You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Matthew Henry, the Puritan preacher and Bible commentator, made this statement after a thief stole his money: "Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

Countless people in worse situations are happier than those in better situations. This demonstrates that happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.

monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. [ Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest , February 1976)]

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. 

Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.

A healthy lamb has a healthy attitude and disciplines himself to read and feed upon the Bible. He see the Bible as a love letter tp himself and meditates on the word both day and night."-Ray Comfort

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

The making of a fortune cannot be achieved without some roughness. It is a matter of temperament.

the practical value of succes depends not a little on the way you look at it.

There are times when a man must act as though life were equally sweet in any company.

he takes things as he finds them, and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other

It's always helpful to have a sense of humor about one's own mental foibles. By

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.

I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.

First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer