Quotes on Attitude

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

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

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.