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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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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.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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.
Don't be against things so much as for things.
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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.
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.
He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
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.
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.
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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.
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.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
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.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
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.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
It is not the position, but the disposition.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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.
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.
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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.
Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Nothing will work unless you do.
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.
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.
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
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.