Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

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.

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

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

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

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

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 is not the position, but the disposition.

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

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

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.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

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.

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

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

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

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.

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

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.

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.

We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge.

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 o! colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

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.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

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.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

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.

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.

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.

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

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

Nothing will work unless you do.