Quotes About Attitude

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

The "C" students run the world.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.

When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of 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.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.