our third page of passages and quotations on attitude

Ultimately, contentment is
more a shift in attitude than
a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the people 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 person 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.

Viktor E. Frankl

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love
like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody
watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Susanna Clark

How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being
a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines
around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you
your face, but you provide the expression!

Barbara Johnson

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Chinese proverb

Begin each morning by resolving to find something in the day to enjoy.
Look into each experience which comes to you for some grain of happiness.

unattributed

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.

Wilferd A. Peterson

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.

William James

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia Maria Child

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon
the bright side of life, gathering its roses and sunshine and
making the most that happens seem the best.

Dorothy Dix

They who are of a calm and happy nature
will hardly feel the pressures of age.

Plato

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude
and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement,
we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude.
The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds
and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life
doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

Earl Nightingale

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually
you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life.
It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn
to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude
while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

Jim Rohn

How true it is that, if we are cheerful
and contented, all nature smiles,
the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,
the earth has a brighter green. . .
the flowers are more fragrant. . .
and the sun, moon and stars
all appear more beautiful,
and seem to rejoice with us.

Orison Swett Marden

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

It's not the load that breaks you down,
it's the way you carry it.

Lena Horne

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

Elbert Hubbard

Success or failure depends more upon attitude
than upon capacity. Successful people act as though
they have accomplished or are enjoying something.
Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful,
conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed
at the positive results.

Dupree Jordan

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.

John Homer Miller

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds;
it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities
that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

It is not the events of today that happened to you that matter (such as that you lost something or something went wrong or someone forgot you or spoke to you harshly, etc.), but how you reacted to it all--that is, what states of yourself you were in--for it is here that your real life lies and if our inner states were right nothing in the nature of external states could overcome us. Try therefore to distinguish, as an exercise in living more consciously, between inner states and outer events, and try to meet any outer event, after noticing its nature, with the right inner attitude--that is, with the right state. And if you cannot, think afterward about it--first try to define the nature of the event and notice if this kind of event often comes to you and try to see it more clearly in terms such as "This is called being late" or "This is called losing things" or "This is called receiving bad news" or "This is called unpleasant surprises" or "This is called being ill." Begin in this very simple way and you will soon see how different personal events, and so how in this respect one's outer life, are changing all the time, and what you could not do at one moment, you can at another.

Maurice Nicoll

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