"I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort."
-- Elizabeth T. King
"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
"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution."
-- Dr. David Schwartz
"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
-- Babe Ruth
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has."
-- Epictetus
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
-- Pope John Paul II
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
-- Herm Albright
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
-- Albert Einstein
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
-- Joe Sabah
The problem is not a lack of ability, but a lack of ambition.
"When you're going through hell, keep going."
-- Albert Einstein
"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will."
-- Sugar Ray Robinson
"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."
-- Louis L'Amour
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
-- Shirley MacLaine
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou
"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."
-- Evelyn Underhill
"We are what we believe we are."
-- C.S. Lewis
"The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude."
-- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
"If you keep saying that things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet."
-- Isaac Singer
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
-- W. Clement Stone
"You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
-- Alphonse Karr
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
-- Dale Carnegie
"A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped."
-- Alice Childress
"See the rocks in your path not as obstacles, but as opportunities to climb higher."
-- Eleanor Wiley
"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."
-- Lydia M. Child
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
-- George Herbert
"First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us."
-- Dennis Waitley
"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives."
-- Robert Collier
"Your mental attitude is something you can control outright, and you must use self-discipline until you create a positive mental attitude -- you mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are."
-- Napolean Hill
"A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
--
Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude."
-- Pat Riley
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