Attitude
537 quotes: 39 by Keith Craft, 498 from other voices.
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- Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
- Everything is figureoutable.
- Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
- Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
- Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.
- Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.
- Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
- Fear cannot take what you do not give it.
- Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
- Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
- Find peace in the morning rush and you will have a good day.
- First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
- Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
- For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- For those who expect everything, there are many curses. For those who appreciate everything, there are many blessings.
- For your mind to function at its highest capacity, you’ve got to be charged with good cheer and optimism.
- Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
- Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
- Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.
- Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer.
- Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
- Glory's not otherwhere but here: Yonder stars may be more horrible than the worst of Earth. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance: The wise grows it under his feet.
- Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
- Grin and bear it is the old-fashioned advice, but sing and bear it is a great deal better.
- Grow into the habit of talking about the bright side of life.
- Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
- Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
- Happiness is an inside job.
- Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
- Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
- Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirits.
- Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
- He is able who thinks he is able.
- He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
- He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
- How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
- How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.
- Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.