Attitude
537 quotes: 39 by Keith Craft, 498 from other voices.
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- The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.
- The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
- The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.
- The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.
- The more you are thankful, the more you attract things to be thankful for.
- The more you do to make somebody else happy, the more happiness will you receive in turn.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
- The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
- The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
- The only thing more contagious than a good attitude is a bad one.
- The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. SwindollCommonly attributed
- The optimist listens for notes of joy; the pessimist hears sounds of gloom.
- The person who is busy counting his blessings has no time to take inventory of his injuries.
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
- The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.Lin YutangCommonly attributed
- The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.
- The trouble with letting trivial things ruin your life is that they keep getting more trivial.
- The true basis of cheerfulness is love, hope, and patience.
- The truth is you can teach any skill, but you cannot change a bad attitude.
- The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
- The way we respond to challenges determines the stories we’ll tell one day.
- The whole world is full of unworked joy-mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.
- The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is in the attitude, not aptitude.
- The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.
- The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.
- The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.William Makepeace ThackerayCommonly attributed
- The world's most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes.
- There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
- There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- There are shades in all good pictures, but there are lights too, if we choose to contemplate them.
- There is certainly no defence against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your great coat.
- There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
- There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
- There is no real life but cheerful life.
- There is no such thing as failure, only results.
- There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
- There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. … It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.