When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that far outweigh the physical dangers that we often emphasize. I believe the chances are that our children will respond to the positive attitude quicker and more thoroughly than they do to the negative. Let's show them the values that there are in that law.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Do something worth remembering.
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
You become what you think about
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!
One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is the number of people it touches, many times in ways you'll never know.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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