Quotes About Attitude

ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR BANISHING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS.

Midwives see birth as a miracle and only mess with it if there's a problem; doctors see birth as a problem and if they don't mess with it, it's a miracle!

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

We must come with great expectation--for we will experience just what we expect.

There s only one way to deal with misery...I say Avoid it

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

Cause punishment takes the friendly right out of you.

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.

And before long I should be certain to find myself at this sink peeling potatoes and washing up; that would be a nice change when both proof-reading and indexing began to pall. Was any man worth this burden ? Probably not but one shouldered it bravely and cheerfully and in the end it might turn out to be not so heavy after all.

Piers was not to be considered at all, even had he been the kind of man who might marry.

Yes, I suppose one feels that life is only tolerable if one takes a romantic view of it,' Leonora agreed.

Those two had a lot of shocks ahead. Everybody did—that was the bitch of it, wasn't it? Nothing ever stayed smooth and beautiful and good, not skin, not faces, not the road of life. What mattered was the way you lived with what happened to you.

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it'comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

There's nothing magic about this. It's a universal law: Our state of mind shapes our way of life.

our state of mind, more than anything "out there," determines our level of success.

Success rarely comes to the passive or pessimistic.

it's not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens that makes a difference.

When it comes to making money, said Barbara Blair, one of my interviewees, "attitude is everything." And that holds truest when life is toughest.

But if we focus on the barriers, we're more likely to encounter them. We achieve what we focus on.

Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,

The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

What touched me the most about the Dalai Lama was his definition of the purpose of life. It was, he said, "to be happy." How does one accomplish that? I asked. "I think warm-heartedness and compassion," he replied. "Compassion give you inner strength, more self-confidence. That can really change your attitude.

Alfred Jarry] neither wished nor was able to adapt himself to the world as it was. He ignored the conventions of life, and even the conditions of life. He refused to compromise with something for which he felt nothing but scorn, and he accepted with indifference the logical consequences of his attitude—that life should destroy him, and much sooner than most.