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I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
Sep 17, 2025
Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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.
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.
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.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
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.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
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.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
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.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
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.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.