Attitude
537 quotes: 39 by Keith Craft, 498 from other voices.
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- If you want to be happy, if you want to live a contented life, if you want to live a life of genuine pleasure, do something for somebody else.
- If you want to be miserable, think much about yourself; about what you want, what you like; what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you.
- Ignorance is a choice. Curiosity is a cure. It motivates people to educate themselves.
- In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
- In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
- In proportion as one loses himself in the way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
- In the good as well as in the evil of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which we take it.
- In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
- In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.
- Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning.
- It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
- It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.
- It is cheerfulness, the temper which makes the best of things and squeezes the little drops of honey even out of thistle-blossoms.
- It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
- It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
- It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but the way in which we think about them…It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
- It is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.
- It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
- It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.
- It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make any one happy or miserable.
- It is not what life brings us, but the manner in which we receive it, that shapes our destiny.
- It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
- It is possible, if you never look up, to live a dull gray life under a blue sky.
- It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.Dalai LamaSourced
- It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
- It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.
- It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
- It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
- It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
- It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
- It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
- Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous. For all my hardships, I have been able to remain quite joyful, for my muscles are strong.
- Joy is not in things, it is in us.
- Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
- Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.
- Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.