Attitude
537 quotes: 39 by Keith Craft, 498 from other voices.
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- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Think like an optimist. Prepare like a pessimist.
- Think more highly of what fate has given you than of what it has denied.
- Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
- Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
- To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
- To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.
- To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
- To get the greatest happiness out of life is to make somebody else happy.
- To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
- To live in scarcity is to worry about the cost of food; to live in abundance is to worry about who else you can invite for dinner.
- To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden.
- To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
- To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.
- To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.
- To the optimist, all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
- Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
- Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does--what, alas! it too often does--unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical.
- Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
- Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
- Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.
- We always think we'd be happier in some faraway place, as if you could catch a plane to a state of mind.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.
- We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
- We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
- We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
- We can't control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.
- We don't "have" a great day, we "make it" a great day!
- We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
- We may make the best of life, or we may make the worst of it; and it depends very much upon ourselves whether we extract joy or misery from it.
- We murmur because we are in want, and therefore want because we murmur.
- We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
- What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
- What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things.
- What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
- What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
- Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
- When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.