“An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.”
“Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.”
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”
“Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.”
“Take the attitude of a student, Never be too big to ask questions, Never know too much to learn something new.”
“You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.”
“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.”
“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.”
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”