Inspirations

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

- William John Bennett

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

- Timothy Bentley

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

- Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

- Tom Blandi

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

- H Jackson Brown Junior

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

- Doctor Jerome Brunner

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

- Pearl S Buck

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

- Leo Buscaglia

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

- Eric Butterworth

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

- Julius Caesar

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

- Glenn Clark

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

- Susanna Clark

It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.

- Robert Conklin

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

- Morarji Desai

It is not the position, but the disposition.

- J E Dinger

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

- Golnik Eric

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

- Euripides

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

- Chris Evert

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

- David Feherty

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

- Zina Garrison

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

- Ellen Glasgow

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

- Thaddeus Golas

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

- Raymond Holliwell

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

- Lou Holtz

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

- Lena Horne

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

- Elbert Hubbard

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

- William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

- William James

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Helen Keller

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

- Frederick Langbridge

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

- Vince Lombardi

Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

- J C Macaulay

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

- Chretien Malesherbes

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

- Maxwell Maltz

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

- Og Mandino

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

- Louis L Mann

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

- George Marshall

Attitudes are more important than facts.

- Karl A Menninger

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

- John Homer Miller

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

- John R Miller

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

- Earl Nightingale

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

- Earl Nightingale

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

- Anais Nin

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

- Candice M Pope

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

- Christopher Reeve

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

- Pat Riley

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

- Pat Riley

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

- Jim Rohn

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

- Rene Russo

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

- Michel De Saint-Pierre

Don't be against things so much as for things.

- Colonel Harland Sanders

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

- Doctor Laura Schlessinger

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

- Charles Prestwich Scott

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

- Hans Selye

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

- W Clement Stone

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

- Charles Swindoll

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

- Charles Swindoll

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

- Charles Swindoll

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

- Charles Swindoll

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

- Charles Swindoll

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

- Amy Tan

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

- William M Thackeray

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

- Count Leo Tolstoy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

- Ted Turner

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

- Source Unknown

Your attitude determines your altitude.

- Source Unknown

Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.

- Source Unknown

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

- Source Unknown

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

- Source Unknown

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

- Source Unknown

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- Source Unknown

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

- Source Unknown

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

- Source Unknown

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

- Source Unknown

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

- Denis Waitley

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

- C M Ward

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

- Willis Whitney

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

- Mclandburgh Wilson

Nothing will work unless you do.

- John Wooden

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

- Hans Selye

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

- W Clement Stone

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

- Charles Swindoll

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

- Charles Swindoll

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

- Charles Swindoll

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

- Charles Swindoll

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

- Charles Swindoll

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

- Amy Tan

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

- William M Thackeray

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

- Count Leo Tolstoy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

- Ted Turner

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

- Source Unknown

Your attitude determines your altitude.

- Source Unknown

Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.

- Source Unknown

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

- Source Unknown

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

- Source Unknown

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

- Source Unknown

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- Source Unknown

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

- Source Unknown

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

- Source Unknown

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

- Source Unknown

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

- Denis Waitley

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

- C M Ward

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

- Willis Whitney

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

- Mclandburgh Wilson

Nothing will work unless you do.

- John Wooden

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Don't be against things so much as for things.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.