Attitude Quotes

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
~Eddie Rickenbacker

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
~Hubert Humphrey

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
~Nicholas Murray Butler

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~George Santayana

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
~Author Unknown

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't cry because it happened; smile because it's over.
~Unknown

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
~Viktor Frankel

If you want to change your life, change your mind.
~Unknown

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
~Norman Vincent Peale

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~L.P. Jacks

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
~Edward L. Curtis

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
~Raymond Charles Barker

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
~Andre Godin

It's time for greatness, not for greed. It's a time for idealism, not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
~Marian Wright Edelman

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
~ Anatole France

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
~Dalai Lama

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~Mary Pickford

People only see what they are prepared to see.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
~ Unknown

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
~Unknown

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...
~William Cowper

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~Helen Keller

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If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
~Mary Engelbreit

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations - plus or minus - it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
~Norman Cousins

The biggest quality in successful people, I think, is an impatience with negative thinking... my feeling was, even if it's as bad as I think it is, we make it work.
~Edward McCabe

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
~James Lane Allen

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
~John Ruskin

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~Chinese proverb

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
~Ann Landers

Luke I can't believe it. Yoda That is why you fail.
~ Yoda

If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
~ Elizabeth Bowen

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
~Oscar Wilde

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
~ Barbara Kingsolver

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.
~Glorie Abelhas

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~Eudora Welty

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a saying among prospectors Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.
~Robert Flaherty

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~Conrad Hilton

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
~Persian Saying

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
~Voltaire

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
~Buddha

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Continuing with our collection of some of the greatest Attitude quotes.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
~J. Brotherton

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
~Samuel Johnson

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
~Arthur Christopher Benson

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt...
~Dorothy Day

What is possible? What you will.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.
~Frederick L. Collins

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
~Katherine Mansfield

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
~Charles Caleb Colton

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
~David Ambrose

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
~The Eagles, Already Gone

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
~Henry David Thoreau

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~Alphonse Karr

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
~Frederick Faber

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To fly, we have to have resistance.
Maya Lin

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
~William James

You really can change the world if you care enough.
~Marian Wright

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
~Alex Karras

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
~John Burroughs

The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
~Antonio Porchia

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
~Walt Whitman

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
~Konrad Adenauer

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
~Henri Frédéric Amiel

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
~Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
~Helen MacInness

Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.
~Author Unknown

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.
~Brian Tracy

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
~James Yorke

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
~James A. Froude

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
~Ken S. Keyes,

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
~Bo Bennett

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
~Buddha

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~Winston Churchill

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
~Henry Moore

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
~Francis Rabelais

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
~Wernher von Braun

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
~Susan Longacre

Misery is a communicable disease.
~Martha Graham

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them.
~Author Unknown

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
~Robert Frost

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
~Edward de Bono

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
~Confucius

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
~Alice Walker

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb

Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.
~Henry David Thoreau

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
~Elbert Hubbard

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
~William James

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde

Make your optimism come true.
~Author Unknown

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
~Anne Frank

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~Confucius

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
~William James

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
~Thomas Carlyle

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
~Kathleen Turner

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men who never get carried away should be.
~Malcolm Forbes

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
~Leo Tolstoy

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~G.K. Chesterton

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
~James Whistler

It's snowing still, said Eeyore gloomily. So it is. And freezing. Is it? Yes, said Eeyore. However, he said, brightening up a little, we haven't had an earthquake lately.
~A.A. Milne

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
~Dag Hammarskjold

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
~Paavo Nurmi

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.
~Ken Keyes, Jr.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
~Kenneth Clark

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
~Pearl Bailey

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
~C.C. Scott

I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.
~Author Unknown

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
~Elbert Hubbard

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
~Margot Asquith

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
~Frank Tibolt

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.
~Author Unknown

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
~Napoleon

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
~Italian Proverb

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~Author Unknown

They can because they think they can.
~Virgil

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
~William James

It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.
~Author Unknown

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.
~Carrie Latet

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
~Demosthenes

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
~Marian Wright Edelman

Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
~Victor Frankl

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~Winston Churchill

Smile when it hurts most.
~Unknown

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean

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.
~ Brian Tracy

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
~ Vince Lombardi

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.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.
~ Unknown

We tend to live up to our expectations.
~ Earl Nightingale

The words I am... are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
~A.L. Kitselman

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
~Malcom Forbes

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
~Florence Scovel Shinn

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Kahlil Gibran

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
~Thomas Dreier

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
~ Art Linkletter

As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. ~Paul Shane Spear

Great things are not accidental, but must certainly be willed.
~Vincent van Gogh

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~ Mark Twain

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~ William Shakespeare

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly.
~William Ellery Channing

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An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~Susan J. Bissonette

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
~John Heywood

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
~Swedish Proverb

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
~Colleen C. Barrett

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
~Henry David Thoreau

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~Marcus Aurelius

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
~Martha Washington

Believe you can and you're half way there.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~Melody Beattie

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy

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.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Ability is what gives you the opportunity; belief is what gets you there.
~ Apollo

Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
~Ernest Holmes

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
~ Harry Truman

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.
~W.W. Ziege

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
~Francesca Reigler

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
~Joe Clark

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
~Annette Goodheart

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
~English Proverb

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
~Epictetus

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown

Whenever you fall, pick something up.
~Oswald Avery

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
~William J. Bennett

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
~Eli Khamarov

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
~Ellen Glasgow

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
~Charles Buxton

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
~Annie Gottlier

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz.
~Ronald Spark

The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.
~Author Unknown

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
~Emory Austin

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~Maurice Setter

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
~Will Foley

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
~Thornton Wilder

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
~Winston Churchill

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
~Cavett Robert

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Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?
~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
~Bill Meyer

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
~John N. Mitchell

Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
~Marcus Antonius

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
~Abraham Lincoln

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
~Ella Williams

Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
~Anne Frank

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
~Richard Bach

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas Alva Edison

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
~William James

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
~King Whitney Jr.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
~Voltaire

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
~Frank Tyger

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Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas Alva Edison

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
~William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
~ William James

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
~Scott Hamilton quotes

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Kahlil Gibran

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, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
~ Charles R. Swindoll

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.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
~Andrew Carnegie

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
~ Buddha

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
~Federico Fellini

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
~Andre Godin

Your imagination has much to do with your life...It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.
~Philip Conley

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy, because we will always want to have something else or something more.
~Brother David Steindl-Rast

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters--one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy

I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~ Mark Twain Quotes

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~Eudora Welty

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
~Emory Austin

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
~David Ambrose

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
~Francis Rabelais

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
~Kathleen Turner

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right
~Henry Ford

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
~Demosthenes

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~Maurice Setter

Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them.
~Author Unknown

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
~Abraham Lincoln

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
~Michael Korda

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~Susan J. Bissonette

Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
~Brooks Atkinson

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
~Elbert Hubbard

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
~Napoleon

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
~William Arthur Ward

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~Author Unknown

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Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?
~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
~Henry Moore

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
~Eli Khamarov

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
~Katherine Mansfield

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
~Cavett Robert

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
~Wernher von Braun

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
~Annie Gottlier