Quotes About Attitude

You are the person responsible for how you feel. You feel what you think, and you can learn to think differently about anything—if you decide to do so.

Change the way you look at things and things you look at, will change.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."1

Quizás todo se trata de la forma en que lo miras. Tal vez hubo cosas que yo veía como feas y otras personas encontraban hermosas.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

He was a humorous, good-natured man, maybe because he hoped for little and expected less and took his satisfactions where he found them.

It's sad that we live in a society that has the refrain 'thank God it's Friday, that means you despise 5/7ths of your life.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

The president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909, Charles William Eliot, thought that ball-carriers in football ought not search for holes in the line that could lead to gaudy breakaway runs, but should do the modest, gentlemanly thing and plow headfirst into the nearest man-pile. (Eliot also didn't like baseball because he believed curveballs and other deceptive pitches to be unsportsmanlike.)

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

a little offending never hurt anybody

Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated* Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why don't things like that ever happen to me?

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

Pessimist, are you?" "I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.