Quote: Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Author: Julie Andrews 1935-, British Singer, Actress
Quote: I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
Author: Louis Armstrong 1898/1900-1971, American Jazz Trumpeter, Singer
Quote: Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Author: William John Bennett 1943-, American Federal Official
Quote: Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Author: Timothy Bentley Canadian Family Therapist
Quote: Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
Author: Irving Berlin 1888-1989, Russian Composer
Quote: It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Author: Tom Blandi
Quote: I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
Author: H. Jackson Brown Jr. American Author of ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' Series
Quote: You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
Author: Dr. Jerome Brunner
Quote: I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
Author: Leo Buscaglia American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author
Quote: Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Author: Changing Times American Business Magazine
Quote: In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Author: Glenn Clark
Quote: You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Author: Susanna Clark
Quote: It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.
Author: Robert Conklin American Teacher, Author, Speaker
Quote: Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Author: Morarji Desai 1896-18, Indian Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: It is not the position, but the disposition.
Author: J. E. Dinger
Quote: A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Author: Norman Douglas 1868-1952, British Author
Quote: To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Author: Golnik Eric
Quote: Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Author: Chris Evert 1954-, American Tennis Player
Quote: It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Author: David Feherty
Quote: A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.
Author: Zina Garrison 1963-, American Tennis Player
Quote: Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Author: Ellen Glasgow 1874-1945, American Novelist
Quote: What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Author: Thaddeus Golas
Quote: Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Author: Vernon Grounds
Quote: People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Author: Henry S. Haskins
Quote: Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Author: Raymond Holliwell
Quote: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach
Quote: Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach
Quote: It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Author: Lena Horne Singer
Quote: We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
Author: Dupree Jordan
Quote: My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Author: Bela Karolyi Gymnastic Coach
Quote: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Author: Helen Keller 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
Quote: A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Author: Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Author: Frederick Langbridge
Quote: The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Author: Vince Lombardi 1913-1970, American Football Coach
Quote: Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
Author: J. C. Macaulay
Quote: We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Author: Chretien Malesherbes 1721-1794, French Statesman
Quote: We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.
Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Author: Louis L. Mann
Quote: Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
Author: George Marshall 1880-1959, American Statesman
Quote: Attitudes are more important than facts.
Author: Karl A. Menninger 1893-1990, American Psychiatrist
Quote: One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Author: John Homer Miller
Quote: If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
Author: John R. Miller
Quote: A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Author: Anais Nin 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer
Quote: Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Author: Candice M. Pope
Quote: You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Author: Christopher Reeve 1952-, American Actor, Director
Quote: Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Author: Pat Riley 1945, American Basketball Coach
Quote: If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Author: Pat Riley 1945, American Basketball Coach
Quote: We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge.
Author: James H. Robinson American Businessman, Chairman of American Express
Quote: I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
Author: Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989, American Boxer
Quote: Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.
Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Author: Ruth Ross
Quote: There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
Author: Rene Russo 1954-, American Actress
Quote: An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Author: Michel De Saint-Pierre
Quote: Don't be against things so much as for things.
Author: Col. Harland Sanders 1890-1980, American Businessman, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Quote: Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Author: Dr. Laura Schlessinger American Family Therapist
Quote: An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
Author: E. F. Schumacher 1911-1977, German Economist
Quote: Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Author: Charles Prestwich Scott 1846-1932, British Newspaper Editor
Quote: Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Author: Hans Selye 1907-1982, Canadian Physician Born In Austria, Research On Stress
Quote: This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Author: Robert E. Speer
Quote: They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
Author: Casey Stengel 1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager
Quote: There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Author: W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author
Quote: Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Author: Amy Tan 1952-, Chinese American Author, ''The Joy Luck Club''
Quote: The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
Quote: I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Author: Ted Turner 1938-, American Businessman, Founder of CNN
Quote: Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Author: Uhland
Quote: A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Your attitude determines your altitude.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Author: C. M. Ward
Quote: I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Author: Martha Washington 1731-1802, American First Lady, Wife of President, George Washington
Quote: Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Author: Willis Whitney
Quote: One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855-1919, American Poet, Journalist
Quote: Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Author: Mclandburgh Wilson
Quote: Nothing will work unless you do.
Author: John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Author: John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: Seek out that particular mental attribute 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.
Author: James Truslow Adams
Quote: The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
Author: James Truslow Adams
Quote: A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
Author: Herm Albright
Quote: Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.
Author: John Amatt
Quote: If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Author: Maya Angelou
Quote: There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Author: William John Bennett
Quote: I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
Author: Derek Bethune
Quote: Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
Author: Diane Bauer
Quote: The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!
Author: Dennis Brown
Quote: Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
Author: Truman Capote
Quote: As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Quote: There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
Author: John Dewey
Quote: A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Author: Hugh Downs
Quote: A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
Author: Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
Quote: Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
Author: Owen Felltham
Quote: The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Author: Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
Quote: Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.
Author: Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
Quote: When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Author: Shakti Gawain
Quote: Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Author: Harold S. Geneen
Quote: The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Author: Harold S. Geneen
Quote: To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.
Author: David Guterson
Quote: Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Author: Katharine Houghton Hepburn
Quote: Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Author: Napolean Hill
Quote: Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Author: Dee W. Hock
Quote: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Author: Lou Holtz
Quote: Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when; whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude
Author: Jesse Jackson
Quote: The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Author: William James
Quote: Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote: Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote: Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote: Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Quote: Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Author: Milan Kundera
Quote: When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
Author: R. A,. Lafferty
Quote: Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
Author: Harvey Mindess
Quote: A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Author: Particia Neal
Quote: What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Author: Richard Nixon
Quote: When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Quote: Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Quote: The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Author: Wilfred Peterson
Quote: If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Author: Carl Rogers
Quote: How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
Author: David Joseph Schwartz
Quote: In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'
Author: Al Seckel
Quote: Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that
Author: Bill Shankly
Quote: There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Author: W. Clement Stone
Quote: The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Quote: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts.... We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Quote: Never solve a problem from its original perspective.
Author: Charles Thompson
Quote: Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Author: Brian Tracy
Quote: Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Author: Thomas Troward
Quote: It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.
Author: Dr. Dale E. Turner
Quote: In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.
Author: Dr. Dale E. Turner
Quote: One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.
Author: Funmi Wale-Adegbite
Quote: Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
Author: Vernon A. Walters
Quote: Funny is an attitude.
Author: Flip Wilson
Quote: Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Author: J. Donald Witers
Quote: We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.
Author: Louis Booker Wright
Quote: Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Author: Zig Ziglar
Quote: I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself
Author: Caroline Warner
Quote: Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Author: Ralph Marston
Quote: Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Author: Unknown
Quote: Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
Quote: If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.
Author: Unknown
Quote: I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Author: Ancient Persian Saying
Quote: If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
Author: Cavett Robert
Quote: It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
Author: Annie Gottlier
Quote: Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Author: Hubert Humphrey
Quote: Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Author: Winston Churchill
Quote: I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Author: Joe Walsh
Quote: Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
Author: Unknown
Quote: To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Author: George Santayana
Quote: Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Author: Francesca Reigler
Quote: If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Author: Mary Engelbreit
Quote: The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Author: Foster's Law
Quote: He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Quote: Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quote: We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Quote: To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Author: Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
Quote: The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Author: Scott Hamilton
Quote: If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Author: Vince Lombardi
Quote: My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Author: J. Brotherton
Quote: I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Quote: Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
Author: Annette Goodheart
Quote: In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Author: Albert Camus
Quote: Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Author: Buddha
Quote: Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Quote: Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Author: Irving Burns
Quote: To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
Author: Ancient Proverb
Quote: True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Quote: To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Author: Confucius
Quote: I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Author: Anne Frank
Quote: The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
Author: Eli Khamarov
Quote: Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
Author: English proverb
Quote: A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Author: Robert Frost
Quote: Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Quote: Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Author: Robert Brault
Quote: Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Quote: Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Author: Charles Buxton
Quote: The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
Author: C. C. Scott
Quote: Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Author: Maurice Setter
Quote: We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Misery is a communicable disease.
Author: Martha Graham
Quote: Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Quote: Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Author: Alphonse Karr
Quote: The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Author: John Burroughs
Quote: Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Author: Italian proverb
Quote: Men who never get carried away should be.
Author: Malcolm Forbes
Quote: Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
Author: Unknown
Quote: We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Author: Kenneth Clark
Quote: We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Quote: Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz.
Author: Ronald Spark
Quote: An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Quote: It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Quote: Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Author: Art Linkletter
Quote: I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Author: Galileo Galilei
Quote: A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.
Author: Ken Keyes, Jr.
Quote: Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
Quote: The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
Author: Henri Frédéric Amiel
Quote: Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Author: Alex Karras
Quote: Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Author: Emory Austin
Quote: Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Author: Edward de Bono
Quote: People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Author: Epictetus
Quote: Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Author: Nicholas Chamfort
Quote: A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
Author: William Arthur Ward
Quote: I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Author: Arthur Rubinstein
Quote: There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.
Author: Frederick L. Collins
Quote: Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Author: Marcus Antonius
Quote: You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
Author: James Whistler
Quote: Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Author: Alice Walker
Quote: Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Author: Swedish proverb
Quote: So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Author: Chinese proverb
Quote: Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Author: Helen MacInness
Quote: We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Author: Joseph Campbell