Quotes About Attitude

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship, he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow, with its head in the clouds eating air, and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."