Attitude
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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Addison, Joseph
1672-1719 British Essayist Poet Statesman
Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it.
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Andrews, Julie
1935 British Singer Actress
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right — shame on you!
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Armstrong, Louis
1898/1900-1971 American Jazz Trumpeter Singer
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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Bennett, William John
1943 American Federal Official
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.
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Bentley, Timothy
Canadian Family Therapist
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
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Berlin, Irving
1888-1989 Russian Composer
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
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.
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Blandi, Tom
I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Brown Jr., H. Jackson
American Author of Life’s Little Instruction Book Series
You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
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Brunner, Dr. Jerome
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
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Buck, Pearl S.
1892-1973 American Novelist
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
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Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
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Butterworth, Eric
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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Caesar, Julius
101-44 BC Roman Emperor
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won’t have a hydrant beside it.
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Changing Times
American Business Magazine
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Clark, Glenn
You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money. You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
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Clark, Susanna
It’s not the situation. It’s your reaction to the situation.
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Conklin, Robert
American Teacher Author Speaker
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
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Desai, Morarji
1896-18 Indian Statesman Prime Minister
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Dinger, J. E.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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Douglas, Norman
1868-1952 British Author
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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Eric, Golnik
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
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Euripides
BC 480-406 Greek Tragic Poet
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life.
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Evert, Chris
1954 American Tennis Player
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
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Feherty, David
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true — it did for me.
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Garrison, Zina
1963 American Tennis Player
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
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Glasgow, Ellen
1874-1945 American Novelist
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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Golas, Thaddeus
Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Grounds, Vernon
People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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Haskins, Henry S.
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
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Holliwell, Raymond
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Holtz, Lou
1937 American Football Coach
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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Holtz, Lou
1937 American Football Coach
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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Horne, Lena
Singer
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
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.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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Jordan, Dupree
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
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Karolyi, Bela
Gymnastic Coach
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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Keller, Helen
1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author Lecturer Amorist
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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La Fontaine, Jean De
1621-1695 French Poet
Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know.
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Lamb, Charles
1775-1834 British Essayist Critic
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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Langbridge, Frederick
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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Lombardi, Vince
1913-1970 American Football Coach
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
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Macaulay, J. C.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Malesherbes, Chretien
1721-1794 French Statesman
We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don’t say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
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Maltz, Maxwell
American Plastic Surgeon Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.
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Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
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Mann, Louis L.
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
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Marshall, George
1880-1959 American Statesman
Attitudes are more important than facts.
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Menninger, Karl A.
1893-1990 American Psychiatrist
One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Miller, Henry
1891-1980 American Author
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.
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Miller, John Homer
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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Miller, John R.
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
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Nightingale, Earl
1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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Nightingale, Earl
1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
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Nin, Anais
1914-1977 French-born American Novelist Dancer
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.
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Pope, Alexander
1688-1744 British Poet Critic Translator
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Pope, Candice M.
You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.
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Reeve, Christopher
1952 American Actor Director
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
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Riley, Pat
1945 American Basketball Coach
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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Riley, Pat
1945 American Basketball Coach
We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make — there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge.
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Robinson, James H.
American Businessman Chairman of American Express
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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Robinson, Sugar Ray
1920-1989 American Boxer
It’s easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It’s not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.
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Rohn, Jim
American Businessman Author Speaker Philosopher
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
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Rohn, Jim
American Businessman Author Speaker Philosopher
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.
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Ross, Ruth
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We’re in high school forever. It’s just what we do with it.
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Russo, Rene
1954 American Actress
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Saint-Pierre, Michel De
Don’t be against things so much as for things.
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Sanders, Col. Harland
1890-1980 American Businessman Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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Schlessinger, Dr. Laura
American Family Therapist
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth — in short, materialism — does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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Schumacher, E. F.
1911-1977 German Economist
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Scott, Charles Prestwich
1846-1932 British Newspaper Editor
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Selye, Hans
1907-1982 Canadian Physician Born In Austria Research On Stress
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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Speer, Robert E.
They say you can’t do it, but sometimes it doesn’t always work.
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Stengel, Casey
1889-1975 American Baseball Player and Manager
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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Stone, W. Clement
1902 American Businessman Author
The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
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Swindoll, Charles
American Pastor Author
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, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, 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% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.
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Swindoll, Charles
American Pastor Author
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
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Swindoll, Charles
American Pastor Author
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.
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Swindoll, Charles
American Pastor Author
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
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Swindoll, Charles
American Pastor Author
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.
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Swindoll, Charles
American Pastor Author
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
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Tan, Amy
1952 Chinese American Author The Joy Luck Club
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Thackeray, William M.
1811-1863 Indian-born British Novelist
He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
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Thurber, James
1894-1961 American Humorist Illustrator
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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Tolstoy, Count Leo
1828-1910 Russian Novelist Philosopher
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
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Tracy, Brian
American Trainer Speaker Author Businessman
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
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Truman, Harry S.
1884-1972 Thirty-third President of the USA
I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.
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Turner, Ted
1938 American Businessman Founder of CNN
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
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Uhland
Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I’m committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.
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Unknown, Source
Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.
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Unknown, Source
The most vital thing in a man’s life is his mental attitude.
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Unknown, Source
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
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Unknown, Source
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.
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Unknown, Source
Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.
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Unknown, Source
Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.
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Unknown, Source
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
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Unknown, Source
Your attitude determines your altitude.
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Unknown, Source
A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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Unknown, Source
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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Unknown, Source
Growl all day and you’ll feel dog tired all night.
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Unknown, Source
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.
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Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Ward, C. M.
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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Washington, Martha
1731-1802 American First Lady Wife of President George Washington
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Whitney, Willis
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It’s the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
1855-1919 American Poet Journalist
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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Wilson, Mclandburgh
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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Wooden, John
1910 American Basketball Coach
Nothing will work unless you do.
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Wooden, John
1910 American Basketball Coach
You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
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Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker