Attitude
537 quotes: 39 by Keith Craft, 498 from other voices.
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- When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "compared to what?
- When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
- When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.
- When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things from it.
- When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don’t wait until you feel better.
- When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.
- When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.
- When you learn to accept fear, you cease making a catastrophe of it. Then it ceases to be your master.
- When you learn to look upon work as a joy and not a curse, then you are beginning to see your way out of the grinding process.
- Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
- Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.Anthony J. D’AngeloCommonly attributed
- Whether a life is noble or ignoble depends not on the calling which is adopted, but on the spirit in which it is followed.
- Whether you are strengthened by life’s difficulties or broken by them is completely determined by your mindset.
- While cheerfulness of disposition is a great source of enjoyment in life, it is also a great safeguard of character.
- Who thinks he will fail — will probably fail. Who believes that dreams are only dreams — will probably find it so. Who doubts himself — will achieve only such results as will confirm it.
- Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it’s a choice.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.Lee J. ColanSourced
- You aren’t really being rejected – you’re being redirected.
- You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
- You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
- You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!
- You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude towards what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
- You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
- You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
- You choose who you are. You own your attitude. You own your integrity. You own your response. You own your character. You own your capacity to love. You own your willingness to help others. You own how you talk to others and yourself. You own your happiness.
- You come to realize that life's daily irritations are just things that happen. They only become irritations if you supply the irritability.
- You do not choose your problems. You choose how you react to them.
- You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.
- You don’t need an easier life, but rather an attitude of perseverance. Attitude precedes outcome.
- You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down.
- You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.Lydia Maria ChildCommonly attributed
- You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
- You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don’t whine! Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
- You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
- You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.Allen KleinSourced
- You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
- You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.