Quotes about Attitude

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.

The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check your cell phone messages, you are missing the chance to spend quiet moments with the giver of life and the eternal, which means you may reap continued feelings of life racing along without you. So as Samuel Beckett admonished us to fail again, and fail better, we try to pray again, and pray better, for slightly longer and with slightly more honesty, breathing more, deeper, and with more attention.

Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be interested. If you feel scared, outraged, confused most of the time, come on over. Have a seat.

Our position in life should never determine our posture in service.

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life.