Quotes about Attitude

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

It is said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.

Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

Each of us is an individual. Each of us is different. There must be respect for those differences… We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of forbearance, with tolerance one for another regardless of the doctrines and philosophies which we may espouse. Concerning these you and I may disagree. But we can do so with respect and civility.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat, or we can talk ourselves into victory.

The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

All we hear is "What's the matter with the country?" "What's the matter with the world?" There ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world, and that's selfishness.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.