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Bo Bennett While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Charles Swindoll The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people
Paul Valery Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Napolean Hill Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Charles R. Swindoll The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts.... We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Caroline Warner I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.
Wilfred A. Peterson The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Charles Swindoll The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people
Anon. Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a ca
Charles R. Swindoll The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Unknown One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.
Flip Wilson Funny is an attitude.
Dennis S. Brown The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE
Elaine Agather Attitude is more important than reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.
Funmi Wale-Adegbite Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.
Victor Hugo Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Bill Shankly Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Norman Vincent Peale Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
J. Donald Wlters Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Paul Valery Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Harold S. Geneen The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Vernon A. Walters Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
James Truslow Adams The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
Katharine Hepburn Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Jesse Louis Jackson Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
James Truslow Adams Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
Terminator 2 Judgment Day John Connor No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say affirmative, or some shit like that. You say no problemo. And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say eat me. And if you want to shine them on it's hasta la vista, baby.
Brian Tracy You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Walter Scott Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Derek Bethune I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
Lou Holtz Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
LONGFELLOW: _K??ramos._ Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude.
Jiddu Krishnamurti Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Brian Tracy Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
R. A. Lafferty When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
John Dewey There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
Albert Einstein My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
Norman Vincent Peale When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
Dr. Dale E. Turner In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.
Dr. Viktor E Frankl Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.
Dr. Viktor E Frankl The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Zig Ziglar Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Maya Angelou If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Albert Einstein The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
John Amatt Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.
W. Clement Stone There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Shakti Gawain When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Edward Bedore The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.
Victor Frankl We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Unknown People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.
"I don't have an attitude, babe--I AM an attitude"!
They have an attitude so I'll have one too - see what we get
Cat (kat') n. Dog with an attitude problem.
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
"I'll kick your big scaly dinosaur butt..." - Food with an attitude
"That's a very Russian attitude. I commend you." - Susan Ivanova (B5)
"Bulls," said Pooh in an attitude a bit more forthright than usual.
"Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude." Spock
"Balls" said Pooh, in an attitude a bit more forthright than usual.
"Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude." Spock
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
"Grits -- Cream of Wheat with an Attitude".
"That's a very Russian attitude... I commend you." - Ivanova
"Your attitude is beginning to get to me." -- Harley Stone
"With this kind of an attitude, absolutely not." - Geordi
"Attitude control has been restored" - Data
"I will not get very far with this attitude." - Bart's Board
"That is a most illogical attitude." Spock
"I will not get very far with this attitude" - Bart Simpson.
"I'm disappointed by his attitude." Bender
"The universe has an attitude, mom." - Calvin
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
"Another tin can with an attitude..." - Wolverine
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors any

 

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