Quotes about Attitude

I am actually learning to enjoy bowling, and I never thought I'd say that. I didn't enjoy it in the past because it hurt. It hurt my back or my ankle.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

Matthew Henry, the Puritan preacher and Bible commentator, made this statement after a thief stole his money: "Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.

Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

Countless people in worse situations are happier than those in better situations. This demonstrates that happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus.