Quotes About Attitude

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

Your luck is how you treat people.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

He who complains, sins.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

For birth control I rely on my personality.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's a very next step to being dull.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Somebodys said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.