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Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
-Scottish Proverb
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We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. "The Japanese are a remarkable little people," we say, as if we were doing them a favor. "He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither." Why "but"?
-Robert Benchley, Isn't It Remarkable?
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While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
-Bo Bennett, "Year to Success"
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"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
-Milton Berle
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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
-Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus
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The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
-Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lou Holtz
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
-Aldous Huxley
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"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
-Washington Irving
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
-William James
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"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the world around him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, 'This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.' The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds."
-Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum [Pub date: May 1, 1985], "(reprinted in The Reader’s Digest, June 1995)"
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
-Katherine Mansfield
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"A will finds a way."
-Orison Swett Marden
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Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.
-General George Catlett Marshall
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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half-full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half-empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: "What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"
-Terry Pratchett
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"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."
-Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Eleanor Roosevelt, November 7, 1962
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere."
-Tom Stoppard
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The longer I live, the more I realize 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 everyday 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 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.
-Charles Swindoll
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It started when I left Vegas that first time, skipping the hotel bill, driving off in that red convertible all alone, drunk and crazy, back to L.A. That's exactly what I felt. Fear and loathing.
-Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The Doomed - More Notes On The Death Of The American Dream (page 142)
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
-Peter Ustinov
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Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
-Paul Ambroise Valery
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Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.
-Karl Weick, "Theory Building as Disciplined Imagination [Academy of Management Review - 1989] (page 526)"
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"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan
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"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
-Tom Wilson, Ziggy
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Books about Attitude
