Quotes About Attitude

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

Live your life, not your age.

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. But when you emphasize and reemphasize a positive attitude, you will finally convince your own consciousness that you can do something about difficulties.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.

People who assume failure tend to have the failure.

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.

Positive thinking is looking at events with the knowledge that there will be both good and bad in life, but that it is better to emphasize the good. And as you do that, good seems to increase.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

The words you speak show exactly the shape that your inner man is in.

Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

A morbid concentration on one's grievances with life will only make one's problems more severe. Far better to focus on one's successes, to gain confidence from seeing oneself winning out. Then one can forge ahead in life.

The Scroll Marked VII I will laugh at the world.

But why, he said with animation, do the English not read their own great literature? Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, Because at school they are made to hate it.

Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, By dang, I can do it! then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.