Quotes About Attitude

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

When a man is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong; when he is cheerful, everything seems right!

Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

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.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.