1、Quotations about AttitudeA positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright, quoted in Readers Digest, June 1995Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? Dennis and Wendy ManneringWherever you go, no matter what t
2、he weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. DAngelo, The College Blue BookIf you dont get everything you want, think of the things you dont get that you dont want. Oscar WildeLife is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. VoltaireI had the blues because I had no shoe
3、s until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. Ancient Persian SayingIf you dont think every day is a good day, just try missing one. Cavett RobertIts so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. Annie GottlierOh, my friend, its not what they take away from you that counts. Its what yo
4、u do with what you have left. Hubert HumphreyAttitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston ChurchillEvery day may not be good, but theres something good in every day. Author UnknownThe sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask th
5、e reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. Ralph Waldo EmersonTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George SantayanaHappiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and str
6、ong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca ReiglerIf you dont like something change it; if you cant change it, change the way you think about it. Mary EngelbreitSo often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. The Eagles, “Already Gone“The only pe
7、ople who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Fosters LawHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel JohnsonThink big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H.
8、 Jackson Brown, Jr., Lifes Little Instruction BookEvery thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, dont count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Bill MeyerWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fan,1893Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he
9、 shall never be disappointed. Attributed to both We must be willing to get rid of the life weve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph CampbellExcellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. Ralph MarstonTo be upset over what you dont have is to waste what you do have. Ken S. K
10、eyes, Jr.,Handbook to Higher ConsciousnesDefeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. Joe ClarkThe only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott HamiltonIf you arent fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. Vince LombardiMy riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but i
11、n the fewness of my wants. J. BrothertonThere is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Publius Terentius AferI dont like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham LincolnJust because youre miserable doesnt mean you cant enjoy your life. Annette GoodheartIn
12、the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical EssaysLet us rise up and be thankful, for if we didnt learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didnt learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, a
13、t least we didnt die; so, let us all be thankful. BuddhaThere are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William J. Bennett, The Book of VirtuesI always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham LincolnBeing in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the pict
14、ure of health. Author UnknownGot no checkbooks, got no banks,Still Id like to express my thanks -I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.Irving Berlin, “I Got the Sun in the Morning,“ 1946To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. Ancient ProverbMake you
15、r optimism come true. Author UnknownTrue contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Charles Caleb ColtonTo be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ConfuciusI dont think of all the misery but of the beaut
16、y that still remains. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young GirlThe best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet ReebokOft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises.William ShakespeareAffectation is a greater enemy to the fac
17、e than smallpox. English ProverbSay you are well, or all is well with you,And God shall hear your words and make them true.Ella Wheeler WilcoxA person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Robert FrostIf we shall take the good we find, asking n
18、o questions, we shall have heaping measures. Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William JamesNothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its int
19、ellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because youve growled all day long. Author UnknownWhat is possible? What you will. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827Good fortune shies away f
20、rom gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. Glorie AbelhasCould we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Katherine MansfieldEnjoy the little things, for one day you may look back a
21、nd realize they were the big things. Robert BraultLet me enjoy the earth no lessBecause the all-enacting MightWhich fashioned forth its lovelinessHad other aims than my delight.Thomas Hardy, Times Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909Whenever you fall, pick something up. Oswald AverySuccess is due l
22、ess to ability than to zeal. Charles BuxtonMy fathers nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. Margot AsquithAnywhere is paradise; its up to you. Author UnknownWe awaken in others the same atti
23、tude of mind we hold toward them. Elbert HubbardIf my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one. William CowperI think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? Henry MooreThis weary ol workhorse is a unicorn, my friend. Jareb
24、TeagueWe plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt. Dorothy DayI am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston ChurchillWhat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - its the siz
25、e of the fight in the dog. Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Betty SmithHenceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am go
26、od-fortune. Walt WhitmanNo life is so hard that you cant make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen GlasgowI have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. Wernher von BraunThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same ti
27、me, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F. Scott FitzgeraldTheres a saying among prospectors: “Go out looking for one thing, and thats all youll ever find.“ Robert FlahertyIve got dre
28、ams in hidden places and extra smiles for when Im blue. Author UnknownThe human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. C.C. ScottI am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. VoltaireT
29、he excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora WeltyBeing a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think its looks, most women know otherwise. Kathleen TurnerToo many people miss the silver lining because theyre expecting
30、gold. Maurice SetterWe cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. Author UnknownThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas CarlyleMisery is a communicable disease. Martha GrahamThe world is full of cact
31、us, but we dont have to sit on it. Will FoleyIf you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you dont, you have achieved half your failure. David AmbroseIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. Francis RabelaisFor my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemp
32、tion of ignorance. Adlai StevensonA happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh DownsVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. Arthur Christopher BensonSome people are always grumbling because rose
33、s have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse KarrIf you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John BurroughsThe real “it is well“ is something I say from the ground,
34、having fallen. Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. MerwinSince the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. Italian ProverbReach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. Susan LongacreI not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. Thornton WilderI never
35、 really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. Pearl BaileyMen who never get carried away should be. Malcolm ForbesBecome a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see p
36、ossibilities - always see them, for theyre always there. Norman Vincent PealeSurrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who dont, you dont. Mignon McLaughlin,The Second Neurotics Notebook, 1966Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can
37、 bear. Author UnknownThere are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Frederick FaberWe all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon. Konrad AdenauerWe can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just
38、 as effectively as by bombs. Kenneth ClarkThe impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. Author UnknownHe started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldnt be done, and he did it.Edgar A. Guest, It Couldnt Be DoneWhy not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. A
39、uthor UnknownSay “Yes“ to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say “Yes“ to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say “Yes“ to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951Positive anything is better than negative thin
40、king. Elbert HubbardI am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a mans course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. Leo TolstoyBe enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. Ronald
41、 SparkAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G.K. Chesterton, “On Running After Ones Hat,“ All Things Considered, 1908It is no use to grumble and complain;Its just as cheap and easy to rejoice;When God sorts out the weather
42、 and sends rain -Why, rains my choice.James Whitcomb RileyImpossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. NapoleonThings turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. Art LinkletterI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something fr
43、om him. Galileo GalileiHeaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. Henry David ThoreauA loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes, Jr.Is life so wretched? Isnt it rather your hands which are too small, your
44、vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. Dag HammarskjoldThe man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frdric AmielToughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. Alex KarrasIt isnt our position but our disposition which makes us happy. Author UnknownTurn
45、 your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori ProverbClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath TagoreSome days there wont be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory AustinMind is everything. Muscle - pie
46、ces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. Paavo NurmiUnhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotics Notebook
47、, 1966People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,“ The Conduct of Life, 1860People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. EpictetusSwallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more d
48、isgusting the rest of the day. Nicholas ChamfortA cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur WardI have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur RubinsteinThere are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!“ and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.“ Frederick L. CollinsConsider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Marcus AntoniusYou shouldnt say it is not good. You should say, yo
