What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while.
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
George Asaf (George H. Powell) The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: attitude optimism worry stress anxiety smiling happiness enthusiasm balance joy smiles attitude positive thinking

It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do.
Whoopi Goldberg, on 60 Minutes, 2/14/93 To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: confidence attitude limitations success attitude

You're as old as you behave.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: age attitude

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude

I made the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude

life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude

The burden becomes light which is cheefully borne.
Ovid Light from Many Lamps
Categories: attitude

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell Taken Care Of ,1965
Categories: attitude

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
Categories: attitude

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
Lynn Johnston For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
Categories: attitude

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Categories: attitude

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Categories: attitude

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
Categories: attitude

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal
Categories: attitude

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude demeanor

The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought, and it grows... Every human mind is fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for. What is important is to see which kind of seeds our mind is fertile for, and to prepare it to receive the seeds of love.
Don Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreement : A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom a Toltec Wisdom Book
Categories: thoughts attitude

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connelly The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance attitude

My advice to you is not to inquire why or with whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude gratitude

How much better it is to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.
William Shakespeare (The Comedy of Errors) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: joy happiness attitude

You may search my time-worn face,
You'll find a merry eye that twinkles.
I am NOT an old lady
Just a little girl with wrinkles!
Edythe E. Bregnard Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging attitude

Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!
Dr. James S. Vuocolo Integrity Newsletter
Categories: optimism attitude

I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
Arabic proverb Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude perspective

Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear -- possible.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: attitude success

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Lillian Carter, spoken when she was in her eighties Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,

Francis Quarles Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: joy happiness attitude

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy
Categories: birds attitude

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: attitude self-esteem

Nothing is an unmixed blessing.
Horace The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: perspective blessings attitude

What we are on the inside, what we continually think about, eventually shows in our words, actions, and even our countenances.
Linda Dillow Calm My Anxious Heart : A Woman's Guide to Contentment
Categories: attitude thoughts character

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: luck expectations attitude

Our world exists only through our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.
Roger Dawson The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: perspective choice attitude

Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheer, raises morale, inspires associates, arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity... it is beyond price.
Allan Cox Words for All Occasions
Categories: enthusiasm attitude optimism

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.
Epicetus The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance inner peace attitude

The modern man takes life far too seriously, and because he is too serious the world is full of troubles.
Lin Yutang The Importance of Living
Categories: attitude humor perspective

The mind is its own place,
`` and in itself
``can make a heaven of Hell,
`` a hell of Heaven.
John Milton You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude choice moods

When the explorer is ready, the guide will appear.
Himalayan saying "Idea Summit" by Anna Muoio, Fast Company, January/February 2000
Categories: attitude growth self-improvement

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness attitude joy choice

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
Mark Twain The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness attitude choice

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus attitude gratitude

To say that the secret to happiness is to want what you have is to suggest that ordinary existence is rich and deep and sufficient unto itself.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: happiness attitude gratitude

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:8 (Apocrypha) The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: joy living happiness attitude

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: enthusiasm aging old attitude

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Paul's letter to the church at Thessalonica
(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) Holy Bible
Categories: joy pray gratitude god attitude

The manner of giving

Pierre Corneille Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
Categories: charity giving attitude

I will never be an old man. To me, old
Bernard M. Baruch The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: aging age youth attitude

It's not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai Stevenson Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World
Categories: aging life attitude

Our own felicity we make or find.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: happiness joy attitude life

Thus, the appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: emotions feelings attitude

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one "object" of love.
Eric Fromm Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love attitude relationships

...the enemy of our enemy is perspective... All we need to do is expose fears to the sunlight and they shrink. They're persistent but not brave. Or expose them to ridicule, and they flee. Laughing juries don't convict.
Dale Dauten "fears always around but can't stand up to sunlight" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, March 27, 2000
Categories: fear perspective attitude

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: gratitude attitude appreciation joy

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction--I've worked hard for them!
Maggie Kuhn Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging looks attitude appearances

It's very much easier to be tragic than it is to be comic. I have known people who embrace the tragic view of life, and it is a cop-out. They simply feel rotten about everything, and that is terribly easy.
Robertson Davies, novelist Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Categories: attitude pessimism optimism joy

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epicetus Light from Many Lamps
Categories: acceptance flexibility attitude

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
Marty Bucella Up Words for Down Days
Categories: attitude optimism hope

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
Mary Jean Iron A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
Categories: gratitude attitude blessings

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud,
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: morning believe attitude day life

The Master in the art of living

Zen Buddhist text "Public Lives, Private Prayers," adapted from the book of the same name by Mary Reath in Spirituality and Health, Summer 2001.
Categories: work joy attitude flow

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
Naomi Williams Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: gratitude depression attitude

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: work job attitude positive

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: vision hope attitude

For the wise man, every day is a festival.
Plutarch Words for All Occasions
Categories: joy gratitude attitude choice

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Norman Vincent Peale Norman Vincent Peale: An Inspiring Collection of Three Complete Books: Have a Great Day, Positive Imaging, Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm
Categories: attitude hope determination

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances.

Baha'u'llah A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
Categories: attitude circumstances gratitude

Once more on my adventure brave and new.
Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: life courage attitude

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: fear attitude self-confidence

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
Categories: birds singing attitude

Your outlook on life is a conscious choice.
Susan Murray Young Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: attitude optimism pessimism

It is magnificent to grow old if one
Harry Emerson Fosdick Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging attitude young at heart

Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them."
Psalms 126:2 Holy Bible
Categories: joy laughter attitude blessings witness

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude challenges achievement success

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J.M. Barrie The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: joy laughter attitude blessings witness

Old age is that night of life, as night
Anne Sophie Swetchine Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: age aging wisdom experience attitude

If you think you can, you can. And if
Mary Kay Ash Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: attitude success failure determination

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: happiness attitude habit joy life

Gratitude is the memory of the heart; therefore forget not to say often, I have all I ever enjoyed.
Lydia Child Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World
Categories: gratitude thankfulness joy attitude memory

Sadness is primal. How we respond --
W. Paul Jones 'Courage as the heart of faith' by W. Paul Jones, Weavings May/June 1997
Categories: sadness depression choice attitude

Courage involves the determination to
W. Paul Jones 'Courage as the heart of faith' by W. Paul Jones, Weavings May/June 1997
Categories: determination strength choice attitude

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth
Categories: personal growth maturity attitude

The man is not old until regrets take place of dreams.
John Barrymore The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: age dreams attitude young at heart

But the mysterious and unsought uprising of love is the experience of complete relationship with another, transforming our vision not only of the beloved but of the whole world.
Alan Watts The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love relationship marriage attitude

Humble-mindedness is possible only for those who
E. Glenn Hinson "Having the Mind of Christ"
Categories: humility attitude humble insecurity

Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today: you can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
     Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
     Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. The bottom line: it's your choice how you live life.
Jerry, a friend of Harvey Mackay 'Bottom line: your choice how to live' by Harvey Mackay Arizona Republic April 18, 1999
Categories: attitude optimism happiness choice

..look at that word blame. It's just a coincidence that the last two letters spell the word me. But that coincidence is worth thinking about.
Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on.
If you want those feelings to go away, you have to say: "It's up to me."
Arthur Freeman The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them
Categories: blame circumstances pain attitude

Gratitude is the heart's money.
French proverb Simple Abundance
Categories: gratitude attitude joy happiness fulfillment

...being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: perfectionism behavior self-defeating attitude

If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: business service attitude personality

Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook Simple Abundance
Categories: meditation prayer spirituality attitude

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: aging age youth attitude childlike

The "as if" principle works. Act "as if" you were not afraid and you will become courageous, "as if" you could and you'll find you can. Act "as if" you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
Norman Vincent Peale Have a Great Day
Categories: belief expectation attitude self-confidence

An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Terence Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude mistake failure work

I believe humans were born to have joy and to have it more abundantly; that the birthright of everyone is loving, caring, sharing, and abundance.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: joy happiness attitude life emotions

Outlook determines outcome; attitude determines action.
Warren W. Wiersbe Be Hopeful
Categories: attitude optimism positive thinking

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever Up Words for Down Days
Categories: young at heart attitude aging

I am asking people to go from Why me? to Try me!
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
Categories: attitude optimism enthusiasm success try

I can live for two months on one good compliment.
Mark Twain Words for All Occasions
Categories: compliment relationship friendship attitude

If you come at me with your fists doubled, I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, " Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are," we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points at which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.
Woodrow Wilson Words for All Occasions
Categories: compromise dialogue cooperation attitude

Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details."
Katherine Hepburn Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude wellness health

Don't attitudenize.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: attitude mood emotion perspective

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude positive success life

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: choice personal responsibility attitude

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
St. Francis of Assisi Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: attitude joy happiness gratitude appreciation

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus--the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: optimism failure success attitude

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude belief success failure

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
Sue Patton Thoele The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: attitude gratitude count your blessings

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: reality perception vision attitude

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life time celebration attitude

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
John Galsworthy Light from Many Lamps
Categories: strength courage bravery attitude

The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: fear destiny attitude failure

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: attitude relationships trust confidence

Self-awareness is a key to self-acceptance, which drives self-motivation and self-fulfillment.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: attitude self-awareness success achievement

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Harvey Mackay Syndicated column (United Features Syndicate)
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude choice

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon Power Quotes
Categories: excellence success attitude hate

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Frances Bacon Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: perspective attitude balance life

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
Rabelais You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: wisdom motive attitude character

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
Confucius Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: attitude gratitude thankfulness blessings

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
Theodore Francis Green The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: age aging feeling growing old attitude

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim Dear Lord, thank you for giving me so much. I know I take it for
Categories: happiness yearning searching attitude

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: complaints attitude negative speech

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: positive attitude thinking optimism

...positive attitudes...come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free!
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: positive thinking attitude optimism

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Franklin Day Planner, November 19, 1994
Categories: character attitude happiness joy cheerfulness

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude friendship love relationship

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: suffering attitude circumstances difficulties

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: joy life circumstances attitude work

Live passionately. Appreciate what you have. Get off the beaten path. Don't smell just the roses, smell everything you can and leave your mark along the way. Slobber as you please. As Socrates' dog once said, the unexuberant life is not worth living.
Rocky, Stephen Wilson's dog "Heart defect won't dampen his attitude" by Rocky, Arizona Republic, 12/24/99
Categories: passion attitude joy discovery gratitude

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness actions self-knowledge attitude

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: attitude acceptance worry stress

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel better: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude perspective problems adversity

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible... and the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.
Artemus Ward The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance attitude problems adversity challenges

If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who...is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy mood attitude depression sadness

Attitudes are more important than facts.
Dr. Karl Menninger Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimism optimistic self-confidence success

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Max Ehrmann The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: calm serenity serene peace attitude

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"
Categories: birth death life acceptance attitude

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgement.
Liz Carpenter Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude flexibility tolerance acceptance

The boaster and the proud person are fools.
Japanese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: pride foolishness boasting arrogance attitude

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: attitude pessimism optimism thoughts choice

Would you be young again?
So would not I--
One tear to memory given,
Onward I'd hie.
Caroline Oliphant Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude focus growth wisdom

Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
Shirley Lord Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude self-confidence self-esteem wisdom

Boasting begins where wisdom stops.
Japanese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: pride arrogance boasts foolishness attitude

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie Simple Abundance
Categories: living joy enjoy happiness attitude enthusiasm

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude friendship anger mad working together business win/win

It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you.
Janet Greeson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: stress attitude anxiety worry thoughts

When you attend to something with true meditative attention, you awaken it in a special way.
Carolyn Forche "Live Welcoming to All" by Sue Monk Kidd, which appeared in the September/October 1997 issue of Weavings.
Categories: vision focus attitude inner beauty inner peace

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: future growth aging maturity attitude

Always and in everything let there be reverence.
Confucius Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: respect reverence worship attitude gratitude

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man's circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought-element within himself that, for the time being, they are indispensable to his development.
James Allen As a Man Thinketh
Categories: thought attitude character growth self-improvement

Contentment is the state of the heart, not a state of affairs.
Linda Dillow Calm My Anxious Heart : A Woman's Guide to Contentment
Categories: happiness inner peace choice circumstances attitude

A merry heart maketh a cheeful countenance.
King Solomon The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: attitude joy happiness enthusiasm appearance beauty

Gratitude is heaven itself.
William Blake A Grateful Heart
Categories: gratitude thank-you thankfulness attitude thanksgiving thanking saying thank you

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love self-acceptance self-esteem attitude personality

Learning to live with what you're born with

Diane Wakoski The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: count your blessings attitude gratitude acceptance

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action happiness mood attitude depression

If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: anger bitterness attitude resentment jealousy

Every day is my best day; this is my life; I'm not going to have this moment again.
Bernie Siegel, MD Handbook for the Soul
Categories: life attitude choice joy priorities vision

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude choice thoughts optimism pessimism

One must think like a hero in order to behave like a decent human being.
May Sarton 'Bureaucracy spans a comic hero' by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic 6/3/99
Categories: character virtue attitude decency honesty

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: thought attitude belief reality vision

No one gives joy or sorrow...We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness sadness unhappiness actions attitude

I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: gratitude faults character attitude thankfulness

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
J.M. Barrie The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: motive suspicion self-confidence attitude thought

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: bounty charity giving sharing attitude

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: happiness circumstances attitude life problems

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus attitude learning contentment serenity

There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: superiority conceit vanity thought attitude

Despair is criminal.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: mood attitude despair depression sadness

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude responsibility relationships friendship demeanor

More often than not, most of our worries begin to disappear when we analyze them--because it's hard to go on worrying when we begin to examine what troubles us, when we see our worries in context.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: worry perspective anxiety focus attitude

Warning: Authorities warn that "try" is a dangerous expression that has enormous power to influence your behavior. It's toxic. Use it very carefully. When "try" creeps into your language or into your thoughts, pluck it out quickly.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: speech try behavior thought attitude action

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction. It's a disease, like alcoholism, compulsive overeating, or drug abuse.

``A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three--the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude negativity pessimism wellness addiction

Happiness depends on ourselves.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness attitude choice life living

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: attitude commitment positive enthusiasm action

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life complaint attitude happiness fulfillment joy

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude depression sadness emotions self-control

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude self-confidence success achievement attainment

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: attitude behavior assumptions perception cynicism

What you see (in your mind's eye) is what you get. Proof: What you saw is pretty much what you got!
Joe Klock Private correspondence with Karen Weber
Categories: joy attitude expectations visualization optimism pessimism

What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-confidence attitude success fate self-determination

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: perseverance persistence direction vision attitude

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: circumstances difficulties value growth learning attitude

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: hope faith habit happiness joy attitude

In relation to others, gratitude is good manners; in relation to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart and a spiritual discipline.
Daphne Rose Kingma A Grateful Heart
Categories: gratitude attitude habit relationships manners

Every situation presents us with an opportunity to automatically react or consciously respond: a choice point...We are a product of our choices, not``of our circumstances.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: choice attitude circumstances difficulties challenges problems

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
King Solomon Proverbs 17:22, Holy Bible
Categories: attitude joy happiness enthusiasm optimism health wellness

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness sharing joy friendship love relationships attitude

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
Robert S. Walker Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude sorrow depression choice emotions sadness

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: hope faith vision wisdom character attitude

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude success determination self-esteem self-confidence optimism

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: trouble worry anxiety anxious stress attitude

We are all given a choice each day. We can react negatively to the demands made on us or we can choose to live abundantly, to transform the negative into the meaningful. Attitude is all. If I do not endow my life and my work with meaning, no one will ever be able to do it for me.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: personal responsibility choice attitude meaning purpose

Clear your mind of "can't."
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude self-confidence self-assurance belief positive negative

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Dale Carnegie Words for All Occasions
Categories: praise relationships leadership friendships attitude compliment

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: circumstances life attitude consequences choice responsibility

I try to only worry about things I have control over...
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns player, responding to questions about trade rumors "Stevie Wonder" by Brian Bujdos, an article in the April 1998 issue of FastBreak magazine
Categories: worry stress anxiety control choice attitude

Action is worry's worst enemy.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action worry anxiety depression attitude stress

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude grudge anger mad resentment unforgiving forgiveness

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Matthew 6: 34 Holy Bible
Categories: worry stress anxiety control choice attitude

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
Epicetus How to Want What You Have
Categories: circumstances events thoughts attitude choice emotions

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: depression sadness attitude mood complaint speech

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: behavior relationships friendships happiness attitude change

Most of those who succeed in achieving their goals do it by creating an environment for opportunity. They feel that they are entitled to go after what they want in life... They open themselves to positive change by becoming positive, energized people. They don't limit themselves with a poor self-image or a negative attitude. They get rid of negative baggage that holds them back. They believe in themselves, giving others cause to believe in them.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: success attitude self-image self-confidence self-improvement change

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: success attitude decision vision mission goals

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character visualization personality attitude vision goal

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: habit consideration kindness attitude happiness courtesy

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude choice happiness depression sadness happy joy

...the Law of Stress-Hardinesss...states that stress is not only to be expected but preferred...we can and should develop an positive, workable approach to stress management...Think of it. The perfect no-stress environment is the grave...When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: stress attitude life power action wellness

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
If we don't, it doesn't matter, but we'd better start to die.
W.H. Auden Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
Categories: living life joy happiness will choice enjoyment attitude

It's always too soon to quit!
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: quit persevere determined attitude belief life

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: mistakes failure success attitude self-confidence learning

An uninspired mind is a handicap we all can do something about.
James R. Ball Soar... If You Dare
Categories: inspiration attitude enthusiasm motivation self-start success

We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: self-esteem confidence attitude action behavior success

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: obstacles challenges problems enthusiasm attitude positive

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: self-esteem self-knowledge self-concept attitude beliefs support

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: beauty soul challenges circumstances life attitude

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life...If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world.
Robertson Davies, novelist Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Categories: pessimism optimism life living attitude future

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: circumstances problems difficulties challenges dignity attitude

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude happiness joy words speech friendships relationships

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: joy enjoyment love acceptance happiness attitude choice

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: focus choice life attitude wellness power

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
Elizabeth T. King The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: adversity difficulties challenges problems contentment attitude

I count life just a stuff

Elizabeth Barret Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: challenges problems difficulty attitude inner strength adversity

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: choice behavior attitude reaction responsibility freedom

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself -- so always think positively.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: perspective focus attitude adversity difficulties problems

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work opportunity action privilege attitude achievement

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how."
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: problems solve obstacles circumstances attitude positive solution

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius How to Want What You Have
Categories: pain suffering despair depression emotions choice attitude

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: limitations disability disabilities handicaps sadness depression attitude

How easily we can forget how precious life is! So long as we can remember, we've just been here, being alive. Unlike other things for which we have a good comparison--black to white, day to night, good to bad--we are so immersed in life that we can see it only in the context of itself. We don't see life as compared to anything, to not-being, for example, to never having been born. Life just is.
But life itself is a gift. It's a compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing, work, make love, for this particular lifetime.
Today, let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!
Daphne Rose Kingma A Grateful Heart
Categories: gratitude life joy attitude enthusiasm optimism living thankfulness

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time...The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: feelings emotions choice attitude stuck focus wellness

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus you may feel your pulse.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: morning spring nature life aging attitude age wellness

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life time present attitude trivia routine gratitude

I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time.
Jean Shinoda Bolen A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
Categories: gratitude attitude thankfulness appreciation blessings grace humility

Never despair.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: hope depression attitude problems challenges difficulties sadness

All the water in the world cannot drown you -- unless it gets inside.
Mary Manin Boggs Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: choice attitude thought problems challenges difficulties focus

Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our path. They grow everywhere.
Big Elk A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: problems challenges difficulties obstacles attitude focus acceptance

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.
Gary Zukav The Seat of the Soul
Categories: spirituality enthusiasm purpose meaning fulfillment joy happiness attitude

We see that when the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. We see that when reverence is lacking from life's activities, the result is cruelty, violence and loneliness.
Gary Zukav The Seat of the Soul
Categories: reverence respect attitude meaning purpose fulfillment alienation

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: circumstances habit mood temper attitude self-control success

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.
George Matthew Adams Soar...If You Dare
Categories: attitude optimism goals past regrets fresh start

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
G. K. Chesterton The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: circumstances difficulties problems attitude adversity hope future

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: stress difficulties challenges problems courage attitude persevere

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: past grief depression attitude focus present future

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: happiness joy misery sadness attitude growth progress vision

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you want to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of the mind.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
Walter D. Wintle Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimism succes optimistic pessimism pessimistic failure

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy attitude choice circumstances character sadness depression

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro Franklin Seasons DayPlanner Friday October 8, 1993
Categories: joy happiness sadness depression attitude emotions feelings choice

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: pessimism optimism attitude discovery vision imagination spirituality

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.
Carole King Tapestry by Carole King
Categories: inner beauty attitude optimism self-image happiness appearances joy joy confidence

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success failure attitude mistakes victory defeat enthusiasm

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude choice difficulty problems obstacles challenges difficulties

...we have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Christiane Collange Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: joy happiness attitude choice problems difficulties challenges obstacles

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude choice optimismist optimistic success self-improvement change

Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions--"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same."
Joan McIntosh The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance attitude joy pain suffering happiness character choices

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-pity depression sadness attitude success failure wisdom

...recognize that if you don't like your life and if you can't change your external circumstances at this point, you can change your attitude toward your life. You can say, "I choose to be happy. I choose to view what I do every day as a way of contributing love." When you go about your life with this attitude, you'll find that your circumstances do begin to change.
Bernie Siegel, MD Handbook for the Soul
Categories: attitude choice happiness joy work satisfaction purpose meaning

Many of us unconciously create drama in our minds, expecting the worst from a situation only to have our expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Inadvertantly we become authors of our own misfortune. And so we struggle from day to day, from crisis to crisis, bruised and battered by circumstances without realizing that we always have a choice...
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings?...Suspend your disbelief. Take a leap of faith. After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: expectations self-defeating thoughts attitude pessimism optimism choice

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
Lydia H. Sigourney Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude choice outlook positive thinking wellness cheerfulness

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: optimism attitude faith achievement success hope confidence

An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.
Zig Ziglar Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimism optimistic optimist enthusiasm self-confidence success

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Sophia Loren Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude abilities skill imagination relationships friendships

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie Simple Abundance
Categories: gratitude attitude focus balance happiness joy fulfillment meaning

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills self.
William C. Doane The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: adversity challenges difficulties problems attitude excellence success achievement

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize on it when it comes along.
H. Bertram Lewis The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: adversity challenges difficulties troubles choice attitude courage strength

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum from the essay "Pay Attention" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: intentions habits attitude mood anger grumpiness soul self-nurture

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage strength life joy adversity challenges difficulties problems attitude

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude determination success try negativity negative positivity positive failure

We triumph over calumny only by disdaining it.
Francoise d'Aubigne Maintenon Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: gossip slander talk words insults attitude self-esteem self-assured

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner in the essay "God's Fingerprints on the Soul" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: perspective vision good truth gratitude attitude soul self-nurture

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Bessie Head Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude love openness availability relationships friendships marriage parenting

For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude positive positivity outlook faith hope

He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: anger relationships friendships self-control self-esteem attitude mood feelings

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: thinking mind boldness attitude resources goal vision mission

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness struggle challenge pain suffering depression sadness attitude

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: enthusiasm spirit difficulties challenges problems heart attitude positive

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude focus vision perspective negative positive

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
J. Sidlow Baxter Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude character vision problems obstacles challenges difficulties opportunities

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: expectations attitude success dream goal vision mission character

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging young at heart senior citizen old elders elderly attitude

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: blessing problem obstacle defeat failure attitude challenge difficulty

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: problems challenges adversity illness disability attitude growth character

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: cynicism attitude negative positive rejection beauty good helpful

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
Bernie Siegel Handbook for the Soul
Categories: love choice attitude relationships friendships happiness happy change

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.
Clement Stone Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimist optimism pessimist pessimism enthusiasm success failure

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability opportunity talent skill action desire motivation attitude

Life experience teaches that we generally get back what we put out. If we don't like what we are getting back, we should examine what we are putting out.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: happiness mood attitude reciprocation depression sadness success failure

I will make myself laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: mood depression sadness laughter attitude joy fear cry weep choice

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change fate attitude determination flexibility flexible strength courage

Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, carress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel it the end of the day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: attitude joy kindness smile communication listening love emotions feelings

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude ego condescension conceit vanity pride respect humility humble

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering Words for All Occasions
Categories: opportunities attitude optimism optimist optimistic self-confidence vision success

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: cheerfulness attitude character strength adversity challenges difficulties problems

We satisfied ourselves the other day that there was no real ill in life except severe bodily pain; everything else is the child of the imagination, and depends on our thoughts. All other ills find a remedy either from time, or moderation, or strength of mind.
La Marquise de Sevigne Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: thoughts attitude positive thinking wellness pain suffering choice

You've got to take initiative and play your game...confidence makes the difference.
Chris Evert Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: self-esteem self-assured self-determination work effort attitude motivation self-confidence vision

There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness, and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating the personal qualities that make for it. What one misses most today is the evidence of widespread personal determination to develop a character that will in itself, given any reasonable odds, make for happiness. Our whole emphasis is on the reform of living conditions, of increased wages, of controls on the economic structure--the government approach--and so little on man improving himself.
William Ogden, 1945 Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness joy meaning fulfillment character self-determination self-improvement attitude growth change

If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and our remorse will not permit us to enjoy them?
David Neiswanger The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: joy life fulfillment hate fear isolation guilt sadness wellness attitude

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: adversity calm serenity peace balance attitude problems challenges difficulties

Think "impossible" and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned , and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words "It's possible," and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest. I believe we are all potentially brilliant and creative--but only if we believe it, only if we have an attitude of positive expectancy toward our ideas, and only if we act on them.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: dreams projects impossible wellness resources creativity attitude ideas action

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness relationships friendship attitude responsibility choice depression sadness unhappiness

...the fact that I practice meditation doesn't mean that I am always calm or kind or gentle, or always present. There are many times when I am not. It doesn't mean that I always know what to do and never feel confused or at a loss. But even being a little more mindful helps me see things I might not have seen and take small but important, sometimes critical steps I might not otherwise have taken.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: meditation attitude learning growth personality change mindfulness present decisions

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: speech talk words peace attitude mood contented happy success

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Starts The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: anger angry mad quarrel fight attitude response relationships friendships marriage

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
Margaret Bonnano 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: attitude focus balance expectations pressure present future happiness enjoyment

Most ordinary situations can be experienced as deliciously pleasurable, or as bitterly disappointing. It depends on how you evaluate them. The more you are enslaved by your desires, the more likely you are to find any given situation disappointing.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: attitude gratitude perspective choice emotions happiness joy desires wants lusts greed

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Frederick Pierce The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meditation visualization success planning vision mission achievement opportunity opportunities attitude

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress! With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford Words for All Occasions
Categories: enthusiasm enthusiastic hope energy attitude courage perseverance progress success achievement

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Lillian Eichler Watson
Categories: happiness attitude depression sadness thought joy inner peace positive thinking focus choice

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: responsibility choice attitude problems challenges difficulties circumstances character life pain

Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
L. Thomas Holdcroft Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: attitude perspective choice feelings stress anxiety emotions growth learning flexibility

Happiness and love are just a choice away.
Leo Buscaglia Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: happiness joy love relationships friendships marriage choice responsibility attitude emotions feelings

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: change difficulties obstacles challenges adversity problems gratitude attitude focus growth

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
Dale Dauten 'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99)
Categories: love joy attitude gratitude change growth self-improvement resolutions relationships success excellence

Living to a ripe old age may not be one of humanity's great blessings, but to live with gusto at a ripe old age is to discover not only what life is about, but what it's always been about.
Joe Klock Like klockwork-- the whimsy, wit, and sometime wisdom of a Key Largo curmudgeon
Categories: attitude age aging elderly senior citizens young at heart quality of life enthusiasm

In each of our lives, for whatever reason, there are times that we are faced with things that just don't make sense to us. And the more we struggle to understand our hardships, the less any of it makes sense.
I have found that in every challenge and obstacle that we are faced with there *can* be good that can come from it! While it's almost never easy to identify, I assure you that it is there lying dormant just waiting for us to release it! I urge everyone to spend your days looking for positives in your life.
Josh Hinds The Inspiration a Day! mailing list, April 8, 1998.
Categories: blessings positive focus attitude gratitude struggle problem difficulties obstacles vision

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: life aging hate time priorities attitude thoughts blame anger mad recriminations

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness then we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Julia Seton Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude words talk pessimism relationships friendships complaints complaining whining whine

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: contemplation study education learning knowledge misery happiness joy attitude focus success

A man used to vissicitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: problems obstacles difficulties challenges mood attitude emotion depression sadness experience

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness attitude optimism positive thinking inner peace self-control joy feelings emotions choice

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Phillip James Bailey The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging time gratitude attitude value action work effort life meaning fulfillment purpose

The hundred point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: trust loyalty honesty integrity politeness speech attitude diet wellness learning courage

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 7:14
Categories: attitude learning growth self-improvement challenges problems difficulty difficulties obstacles meditation prayer

Your world is as big as you make it,
I know for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner,
My wings pressing close to my side.

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!
Georgia Douglas Johnson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: risk security caution bravery strength attitude belief self-confidence freedom success achievement

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-interest, fear, despair -- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Watterson Lowe The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: attitude beliefs authenticity aging enthusiasm worry doubt selfishness fear afraid despair

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
Smiley Blanton, MD The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: anxiety stress fear flow flexibility ability attitude capability patience balance perspective

Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness choice attitude depression sadness happy unhappiness unhappy learning growth self-improvement

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul... You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phelan The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: youth attitude ideals enthusiasm doubt fear sadness despair faith hope self-confidence

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: sorrow sadness despair depression attitude emotions feelings action work meaning purpose fulfillment

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character patience punctuality time sincerity integrity honesty solicitude caring giving attitude perception

The measure of our future success and happiness will not be the quality of the cards we are dealt by unseen hands, but the poise and wisdom with which we play them.``
Choose to play each hand to the best of your ability without wasting the time or energy it takes to complain about either the cards or the dealer or the often unfair rules of the game.``
Play both the winning and the losing hands as best you can, then fold the cards and ante up for the next deal!
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: success future happiness life poise wisdom complaints time energy rules attitude perseverance

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: enthusiasm drive success attitude goal dream vision obstacles problems difficulties significance meaning

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pinpricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition. Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work. Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient...Ignore the inconsequential.
Grenville Kleiser Light from Many Lamps
Categories: serenity peace tranquility circumstances problems difficulties challenges focus attitude worry work life opportunities

Yield not thy neck
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
William Shakespeare, from King Henry VI Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: fate destiny circumstances problems obstacles perseverence determination persist mind thought chance luck attitude

How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on, and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: attitude gratitude thought joy happiness emotions life choices decisions learning growth self-improvement experiences perception

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William A. Ward Words for All Occasions
Categories: success achieve planning preparation goal vision mission positive attitude persistence determination work effort

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude failure success vision persevere determination obstacles problems difficulties challenges overcoming effort beauty

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Emmet Fox Simple Abundance
Categories: blessing prayer growth acceptance attitude troubles problems challenges obstacles difficulty difficulties difficult situations

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.
L.P. Jacks Words for All Occasions
Categories: optimism optimistic pessimism pessimistic attitude choice opportunity opportunities problems obstacles difficulties challenges adversity

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: vision mission service giving sharing volunteerism volunteering joy happiness meaning purpose fulfillment attitude reason for living

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
J.B. Priestley Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness fulfillment meaning selflessness selfishness depression sadness emotions attitude giving sharing community service ministry

...true happiness stems from a quality within ourselves, from a way of thinking of life. Of all the millions of words written on happiness, this is the oldest and most enduring truth. If the principles of contentment are not within us, no material success, no pleasures or possessions, can make us happy.
Lillian Eichler Watson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness attitude depression contentment materialism sadness success joy happy focus money possessions indulgence balance character

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: "This, too, shall pass."
Ann Landers Life's Little Treasure Book On Wisdom
Categories: problems difficulty difficulties challenges obstacles attitude persevere overcoming overcome troubles hard times change flexibility

Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so that the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way, though we dislike enduring them. A blustery period in our fortunes is often the prelude to a new spring of life and health, success and happiness, when we keep steadfast in faith and look to the good in spite of appearances.
Jane Truax Words for All Occasions
Categories: storms difficulties challenges obstacles opportunities problems growth maturity faith success happiness attitude optimism optimistic

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.
Martin Seligman What You Can Change... and What You Can't
Categories: pessimism wellness sadness depression failure success achievement health attitude emotions feelings negative thinking optimism

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
General Douglas MacArthur Words for All Occasions
Categories: thought young at heart attitude optimism hope beauty courage love strength bravery pessimism cynicism age aging old

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: attitude faith hope belief positive thinking optimism believe prayer inner wisdom problems solving difficulty difficulties obstacles challenges adversity

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves--such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty...The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: comfort happy virtue strength kindness beauty truth goodness honesty integrity purity uplifting inspiring attitude focus gratitude

As in all other events in our lives, the major impact of aging isn't so much what actually happens to us, especially since it is one of those things that are beyond our control.
Rather the significant factor is what we think is happening to us and what we think about what we think is happening us.
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: age aging attitude thought getting old elderly physical changes of aging optimism senior citizens young at heart

Every day I learn more than I teach,

Virginia Church Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: education experience growth aging attitude self-improvement growth

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: control self-control attitude optimism challenges difficulties problems

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.
Edward Young The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: lifestyle responsibility choice materialism possessions greed values integrity character truth gratitude attitude self-nurture happy joy fulfillment meaning purpose

We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them ultimately determines how successful you are.
Craig McFarlane (blind motivational speaker) "Motivation overcomes 'minor inconvenience'" by Robbie Sherwood, 11/13/98 Arizona Republic
Categories: attitude positive thinking determination persevere handicaps disability adversity challenges difficulties problems coping cope overcoming overcome bad luck success

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Norman Vincent Peale Have a Great Day
Categories: potential possibility possibilities determination attitude belief ability vision goal planning success ability

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: attitude happiness hate love worry stress simplicity love kindness selflessness golden rule

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: attitude adversity problems challenges problems self-image

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is not this sad?
Dorothee DeLuzy Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude happiness wrong choice goodness joy happiness

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
King Solomon Proverbs 16:32
Categories: temper angry mad attitude self-control emotional control

Every day you get many chances to become angry. For instance, a driver cuts in front of your car on the way to work. Someone else criticizes you. Another person doesn't return your call. All these are anger invitations. You could accept every one, in which case you'll be angry all the time.
Instead, you have to be careful. The key is to ignore the less important invitations. You have to separate what is merely annoying from what is really serious.
Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, and Pat Potter-Efron, MS Letting Go of Anger
Categories: anger angry mad annoy criticism road rage choice responsibility stress patience attitude choice emotions feelings

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World
Categories: happiness friendships living celebration love relationships joy enjoyment sharing caring loving life live happiness attitude give

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your personal place; that makes you tolerant because you realize your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.
Sir Hugh Walpole Light from Many Lamps
Categories: humility humble happiness joy happy attitude spirituality possessions materialism selfishness selflessness ambition competitiveness sense of humor peace calm serenity faith hope community

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: integrity character choice responsibility blame action words vision desire change goals effort attitude success accomplishment self-confidence self-esteem growth excuses rationalization potential decisions

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
William B. Given, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work job vocation ability skill talent character loyalty sincerity integrity honesty enthusiasm business team leadership teamwork diligent effort actions attitude optimism cooperation relationships enthusiastic morale career success

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude focus positive negative joy love happiness fulfillment self-esteem enthusiasm serenity peace wellness energy trust resentment fear tension anxiety fear fatigue emotions meaning success health