attitude - attitude 3

Of all the things
you wear, your expression
is the most important.

Janet Lane

   

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it.  If you are frightened
and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard
you may try to succeed.  Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you,
cuts you off from the good things of the world.
Expect victory and you make victory.

Preston Bradley

      

What many people don't realize is that we can change our attitudes
towards life.  It takes some work, but it can be done.  The more
we accept other people and their faults and quirks, the less
judgmental we become.  The more we decide to share the goodness
that's within us, the less selfish we become, and the less likely we
are to hoard or hang on to material things.  The more we learn
about other people's emotional or physical problems, the more
understanding and compassionate we become.
  Your attitude is
one of your gifts to the world, all day, every day.  What kind of
gift do you give?  And is it a gift that remains steady
no matter what happens to you?

tom walsh

  

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

Herm Albright

   

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

Raymond Charles Barker

   

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 way in which we think of ourselves
has everything to do with how our world sees us.

Arlene Raven

 

There are no menial jobs,
only menial attitudes.

William J. Bennett

I am happy and content
because I think I am.

Alain-Rene Lesage

   

The happiness of your
life depends upon the quality
of your thoughts. . .
take care that you entertain
no notions unsuitable to virtue
and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius
   

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

Federico Fellini

 

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes
more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Eddie Rickenbacker

 

 

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
when life flows by like a song. 
But the person worthwhile
is one who will smile,
when everything else goes wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of
his or her opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his or her difficulties.

Harry S. Truman

The optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

 

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

Ellen Glasgow

 
That the birds of worry and care fly above your head,
this you cannot change.
But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Chinese Proverb

 

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Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

  
Your attitude is your choice.  It always is.  We live in an age that has developed the art of shifting blame to very high levels, and sometimes we get caught up in that same tendency.  "Well, if you had my job you wouldn't be so positive."  "If you had my kids, you wouldn't feel so good."  "If only my boss were different, I could be a positive person."  In other words, "My bad attitude is not my fault!"
   The truth is, however, your attitude and mine are always our choice.  No matter how bad things are, no one can force you to have a bad attitude if you don't want to.  Now that should come as really good news because it says our attitudes don't have to be victims of our circumstances or of other people.  We choose our responses.


Mary Whelchel
  

  

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 think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company. . . a church. . . a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday 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. . .
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.

Charles Swindoll

   
  

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.   Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people.  The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact.   Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived.   And what affects them most is our attitude--the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them.
   If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

Earl Nightingale

  
   

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

Malcom Forbes

    
   
Articles and book excerpts on Attitude:

Attitude      the Dalai Lama
Gratitude:  Why and for What?     Bernie Siegel

Is Love an Art?      Erich Fromm

You Control Your Attitude      Jeff Keller

Dancing to Your Own Tune      T.W. Winslow

How Do You Handle a Bad Day?      Robert Taylor

Happiness      Bob Williams

How to Cheer Yourself up When You're Down      Colleen Moulding

How to Develop a Healthy Perspective      Jeff Keller

How to Get More out of Life      Unknown Author

I Can't      tom walsh

The "I Can't" Funeral      Author Unknown

The Key Attitude for Success      Asoka Selvarajah

Live on the Happy Side      Norman Vincent Peale

Preventing Pessimism      Nita Jackson

Put Joy in Your Life--You're Never Too Old!      Susana Bouquet

Shoveling Snow      tom walsh

Simple Pleasures      T.W. Winslow

Sowing and Reaping      Vic Johnson

Keep Track of Your Results      Jim Rohn

    

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