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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Sep 10, 2025
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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 ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.
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.
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.
The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
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.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.