ABRAHAM LINCOLN :

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

CARLOS CASTANEDA :

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

COLLEEN C. BARRETT :

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

M. SCOTT PECK :

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

MARCUS AURELIUS :

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN:

No one, Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

MAYA LIN :

To fly, we have to have resistance.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON :

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

VICTOR FRANKL :

Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

VIKTOR FRANKL :

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.

WILLIAM JAMES :

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty

Misery is a communicable disease. ~

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ~James Whitcomb Riley

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort