Quotes About Attitude

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995 Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book 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 If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier You only have to do something until you want to do it, then you won’t have to do it any more. ~Leland Val Van de Wall 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 Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. ~Author Unknown There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault 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 If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit 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" 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 I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde,Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893 Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark 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 My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton 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 Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays 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 There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown 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, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946 To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable. ~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 To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius Your life is your garden, Your thoughts are the seeds. If your life isn't awesome, You've been watering the weeds. ~Author Unknown Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown Why aren't you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question. ~Vilayat Khan I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank,The Diary of a Young Girl You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. ~Robert Brault, The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. ~Dennis S. Brown Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. ~William Shakespeare Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. ~Stephen Covey If you have nothing to be grateful for check your pulse. ~Author Unknown Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ~William Ellery Channing, 1838 A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone. ~Robert Frost If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it. ~Daniel, A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. ~Patricia Neal The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Frankenstein, 1818 When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out. ~Dodinsky What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault,  Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight. ~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909 Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery My joy may be diminished now, but I am still alive to be more joyful ahead. ~Ankam Nithin Kumar Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton 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 Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard 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 Let your inner sunshine overcome the passing haze of discontent. ~Dodinsky, I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed. ~Attributed to Neil Maxwell Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ~René Descartes Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic. ~Mike Abrashoff I wish I was a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum! ~Author Unknown We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. ~Dorothy Day Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not. ~Abraham–Hicks You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day. ~Cotton Fitzsimmons If the sky falls, hold up your hands. ~Author Unknown [W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified) Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down. ~Robert Brault Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault Reach for a better feeling thought. ~Abraham–Hicks 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 will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~Mahatma Gandhi Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ~David Ben-Gurion There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice. ~Dodinsky, The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets 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 If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. ~Robert Brault The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty 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 keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter Grow antennae, not horns. ~James Angell Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment. ~I Ching Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity. ~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes. ~Irish Saying Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~Arab Proverb Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt! ~Dodinsky,  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 Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches..., you are the same. ~Mike Dolan, The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, 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 Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. ~Mike Dolan,  If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson 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 A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be. ~John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), "A Protest" (February Fourteenth), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920 Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think. ~Abraham–Hicks Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. ~Rita Mae Brown The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. ~Robert Brault, Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. ~Quoted by Alphonse Karr, see quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/16/rose-thorn All that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. ~Paul Walker Nothing so absurd as to sit down and wring your hands because all the good which may happen to you in twenty years has not taken place at this precise moment. ~Sydney Smith, "A Little Moral Advice: A Fragment on the Cultivation and Improvement of the Animal Spirits" If you absolutely can't stay positive, don't go negative, just cruise neutral for a while until you can get back up. ~Terri Guillemets I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit. ~John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), "Transformation" (February Fifteenth), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920 If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better. ~R.A. Campbell, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915 The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good. ~Terri Guillemets Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them. ~Mike Dolan, Every day is a new opportunity to be grateful, and enjoy the world, and improve it — in our own little ways. ~Terri Guillemets When it rains, it pours. You decide what comes down. ~Justin Uyehara So many problems, so many snags       To untangle every day;       So many perplexing things in life       That keep us from being gay! So many days that are drab and dull       That we're filled with deepest woe,       And we give way to discouragement,       Our dangerous, mortal foe.— A foe to our joy and happiness,       A foe to our peace of mind,—       It's something we all have to conquer       If contentment we would find! ~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Our Mortal Foe" (1940s) The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Clouds or no clouds, life is grand — be grateful for all the varieties of weather in your life. ~Terri Guillemets Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder