Quotes About Attitude

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

She did not mind if he observed her hands. She intended to scorn him. Her heavy arm lay negligently on the table. Her mouth was closed as if she were offended, and she kept her face slightly averted.

Actually, when working in any position of responsibility, not only as tenzo, but as any officer or assistant, strive to maintain a spirit of joy and magnanimity, along with the caring attitude of a parent.57

Whether you are the head of a temple, a senior monk or other officer, or simply an ordinary monk, do not forget the attitude behind living out your life with joy, having the deep concern of a parent, and carrying out all your activities with magnanimity. Written by D?gen in the spring of 1237 at K?sh?-ji for followers of the Way in succeeding generations.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

But what do average people do? The exact opposite. If they don't like a thing, they bawl out their subordinates; if they do like it, they say nothing.

There is nothing either good or bad," said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes it so.

If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I have known people," he said, "who succeeded because they had a rip-roaring good time conducting their business. Later, I saw those people change as the fun became work. The business had grown dull.

Il est certain que le plus sûr moyen de connaître le bonheur serait de contrôler nos pensées. La félicité ne dépend pas des conditions extérieures, elle est régie par notre attitude mentale.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …

Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results.