Quotations about Attitude 2

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman


No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow


I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun


Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ~David Ben-Gurion


There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty


I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown


The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice. ~Dodinsky,www.dodinsky.com


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott


Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets


I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire


If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty


Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner


If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter


Grow antennae, not horns. ~James Angell


We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown


Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt! ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle


Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham


A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches..., you are the same. ~Mike Dolan,www.hawaiianlife.com


The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley


Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose


Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com


If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais


This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend. ~Terri Guillemets


For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs


Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson


Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. ~Rita Mae Brown


The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr


If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better. ~R.A. Campbell, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915


The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs


Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good. ~Terri Guillemets


Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com


The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb


Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre


I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder


May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. ~Sara June Parker


I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey


Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes


Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. ~John Heywood


Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale


Wag more. Bark less. ~Author Unknown


Scratch less, purr more. ~Author Unknown


Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown


There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber


We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer


No vision and you perish;
No ideal, and you're lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.
~Harriet Du Autermont


Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. ~Colleen C. Barrett


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark


The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown


Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do - send for reinforcements? ~Robert Brault, "Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme," www.robertbrault.com


He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
~Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done


Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown


Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard


They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind. ~Dodinsky,www.dodinsky.com


The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~John Milton


For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert


Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy


If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination. ~Author Unknown


Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark


Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better. ~Terri Guillemets


An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908


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.
~James Whitcomb Riley


How can something bother you if you won't let it? ~Terri Guillemets


Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon


My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. ~Jack Layton


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter


Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. ~Eckhart Tolle


I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei


Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau


A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.


Whatever my day may have lacked, yet I have tonight's pearl moon. ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com


Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter. ~Harshit Bhattaram


The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author Unknown


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. ~Dag Hammarskjold


If you fail to look at the Brightside of life,
You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.
~Amir Al-Rubai


Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. ~Terri Guillemets


The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel


Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~Alex Karras


It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown


Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin


Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi


Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977


Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860


People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus


Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort


A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward


I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein


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." ~Frederick L. Collins


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius


You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler


"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne


Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker


Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb


You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet


So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb


Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ~Francesca Lia Block


Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness


We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell


Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Terri Guillemets


Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

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