Attitude -christiansquoting.org.uk

It's a beautiful world to see,
Or it's dismal in every zone,
The thing it must be in its gloom or its gleam
Depends on yourself alone.
Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.
Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.
Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive.
Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.
Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.
Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships.
Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy because I have a job to do.
Today I can complain because I have to go to school or eagerly open my mind and fill it with rich new tidbits of knowledge
Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored because the Lord has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul.
Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to me.
I get to choose what kind of day I will have! Have a GREAT DAY . . .unless you have other plans.
"This is the day the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!"
Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like.

I am responsible for my attitude. My attitude determines my actions

You cannot change people but you can change the way you look at them.

The church is near but the road is icy; the tavern is far away but I will walk carefully.--Russian proverb

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him. -- Bernard Baruch

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. -- Boethius

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Bronte

A winner never whines. -- Paul Brown

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.-- Dale Carnegie

I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. . . . -- Charles Dickens, in Martin Chuzzlewit

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! - Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.-- John Donne

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.--- Hugh Downs

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight , it's the size of the fight in the dog. EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID (1890-1969)

Cripple them, and you get a Sir Walter Scott or a Florence Nightingale. Lock them in a prison cell, and you get a John Bunyan or a Susan B. Anthony. Pit them against impossible, overwhelming odds, and you get a George Washington or a Joan of Arc. Raise them in abject poverty, and you get an Abraham Lincoln or a Mother Theresa. Strike them down with terrible illness, and you get a Franklin Roosevelt or a Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bronte. Deafen them, and you get a Ludwig von Beethoven or a Helen Keller. Have them born black in a society filled with racial hatred and discrimination, and you get a Booker T. Washington or a Marian Anderson. Call them slow learners, 'retarded', or write them off as uneducable or crazy, and you get an Albert Einstein or a Marie Curieâ*| and so it is that life is 20% what happens to us and 80% the way we respond to it.- Ted Engstrom and Ellen Mogensen

Men are not moved by things but by the views which they take of them.-- Epictetus

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter. --Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. -- Victor Frankle

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. - John Hancock (1737 &endash; 1793)

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.-Lena Horne

I am too busy with my cause to-- hate--too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him. Lawrence James

This should be a man's attitude: 'Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will disturb him much. -- Thomas Jefferson

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton in Treasury of Women's Quotations, Carolyn Warner; Prentice Hall, 1992.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.- Lombardi, Vince

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further thanpeople with vastly superior talent.--Sophia Loren (1934- )

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. - George Lorimer (1867-1937)

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.-- Orisen S. Marden

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. -- Maxwell Maltz

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities. --Robert Murray McCheyne

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure -- Norman Vincent Peale

There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -- John Ruskin (attributed)

Don't tell God how big your problems are...tell your problems how big your God is. - Sue Schmacher

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.-Fulton J. Sheen

Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ... Betty Smith

The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past--we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude--I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you--we are in charge of our Attitudes. -- Charles Swindoll

They are able because they think they are able.... Virgil

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. -- Martha Washington

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that flow.
'Tis the set of sails and not the gales/
Which tells us the way to go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

Your attitude is more important than your aptitude-- . Zig Ziglar

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious. -- Zig Ziglar

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. -- Zig Ziglar

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it. -- Zig Ziglar