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Life is a refining
process. Our response to it
determines whether we'll be ground down or polished
up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays
sonatas, while another merely bangs away at
"Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's
how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you
that determines your joy and shine. -Barbara Johnson
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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
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happiness or unhappiness depends
upon their attitude. . . a
person's attitude will create the situation he or she imagines.
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Keep on going, and the
chances are that you
will stumble
on something, perhaps
when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone
ever stumbling on something sitting down.
-Charles F. Kettering
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| The faultfinder will find faults
even in paradise. -Henry David Thoreau |
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Nothing can stop the
person with the right mental
attitude from achieving his or her goal; nothing on
earth can help the
person with the wrong
mental attitude. -Thomas
Jefferson (also attributed to W.W. Ziege) |
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When you look at
the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you
look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look
at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at
it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit,
what wonderful
people you find in it. -Horace Rutledge |
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Our
attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power
working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is
of
paramount importance that we know how
to harness and control
this great force. -Tom
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Adventure
begins with you, personally.
It is in the way
you look at things.
It is the mental stance you take
as you face your day.
It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness.
It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you.
The attitude
of adventure will open things up for you.
The world will
become alive with new zest and meaning.
You’ll become
more aware of the beauty everywhere.
Nothing will seem
unimportant.
Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.
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| Those people work more wisely
who
seek to achieve good
in their own small corner of the
world . . .
than those who are forever thinking
that life
is in vain,
unless one can do big things. -Herbert Butterfield |
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The
greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter
their lives simply by altering their attitude of mind.
William
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Each of us makes
our own weather,
determines the color of the skies in the emotional
universe which we inhabit.
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working
and finishing your work
and sitting down to a meal with
family or friends, then the chances are
you're not going
to be happy. If someone bases his or her happiness
or
unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge
amounts of money,
a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip
to Paris, that person isn't going
to be happy much of the
time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends
on a good
breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap,
then we
are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
-Andy Rooney
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Could we change our
attitude, we should not only see life differently,
but
life itself would come to be different. Life would
undergo a change of
appearance because we ourselves had
undergone a change in attitude. -Katherine Mansfield |
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Make
yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us
yet know,
for none of us have been taught in early youth,
what fairy palaces
we may build of beautiful thoughts, as
proof against all adversity. We may build bright,
beautiful memories, noble histories,
faithful sayings,
treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts,
which
care cannot disturb, pain make gloomy, or poverty take
away
from us. They are houses built without hands,
for our souls to live in. -John
Ruskin
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| 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
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If you
persuade yourself that
you can do a certain thing,
provided this thing be possible,
you will do it, however
difficult it may be. If, on
the contrary, you
imagine that
you
cannot do the simplest
thing in the
world, it is
impossible for you
to do it,
and molehills
become for you
unscalable mountains.
-Emile
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One ship drives
east and another west,
With the self-same winds that blow;
'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales
That determines where they go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life;
'Tis the set of a soul that decides its goal--
And not the calm or the strife.
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| Enthusiasm is the
element of success in everything. It is the light
that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up
in
the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of
professional labor.
It robs endurance of difficulty,
and makes pleasure of duty. -George
Washington Doane |
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Our
attitude tells the world what we expect in return. If
it's a cheerful, expectant attitude,
it says to everyone
with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in
our dealings
with the world. You see, we tend to
live up to our expectations. And others give to us,
as far as their attitudes are concerned, what we expect.
Our attitude is something
we can control. We
can establish our attitude each morning when we start our
day--in fact,
we do just that, whether or not we realize
it. And the people in our family--all the people
in
our world--will reflect back to us the attitude we
present to them. It is, then, our attitude
toward
life that determines life's attitude toward us. Cause
and effect. Everything we say
or do will cause a
corresponding effect. If we're cheerful, glad to be
experiencing
this miracle of life, others will reflect
that good cheer back to us. We are the kind
of
people others enjoy being around. -Earl Nightingale
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I'll be the first to admit that when I've
failed in life, I've caused my own failures. My attitude
hasn't always been a positive one--I've spent quite a lot
of time in my life focusing on the negative rather than
the positive, the limitations rather than the potential,
what I was missing rather than what I had. I can't tell
you when the change occurred, or where, or how. It's been
a long process, and one that I've had to keep working at
in order to keep it going. I've learned through reading
and watching people and asking questions that my world is
what I make it--I've been blessed with many gifts, but it's
up to me whether I use them or not. If I don't, I'm
pretty much wasting my time on this planet.
-Tom Walsh
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Abundance
is, in large part,
an attitude. -Sue Patton
Thoele
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If
you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised.
You'll get it. -Malcom
Forbes |
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The
principle of life is that life responds
by corresponding;
your life
becomes
the thing you have decided it shall be.
-Raymond Charles
Barker |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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Of
all the things
you wear,
your expression
is the most important. -Janet Lane |
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Our
minds can shape the
way a thing
will be because we act according
to our expectations. -Federico
Fellini |
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There
are no menial jobs,
only menial attitudes. -William
J. Bennett |
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Think
positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes
more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and
experience. -
Eddie Rickenbacker |
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I am happy and
content
because I think I am. -Alain-Rene
Lesage |
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The
way in which we think of ourselves
has everything to do with how our world
sees us. -Arlene
Raven |
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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
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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 |
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The
optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
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No life is so
hard that you can't make it easier
by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow |
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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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A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will
annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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