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ATTITUDE QUOTES

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* If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou

* "We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
-- Maya Angelou

* If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou

* "Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
-- Leonardo Boff

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
-- Carol Burnett

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
-- John Dewey

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future."
-- Albert Einstein

When faced with world problems – like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade – you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of “Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?” Take heart. That’s a sane response. It’s the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.
-- Scilla Elworthy

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

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
-- Scott Hamilton

"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."
-- William James

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
-- Bruce Lee

* Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
-- Annie Lennox

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John Lubbock

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

* "Life is like a mirror.
Smile at it and it smiles back at you."
-- Peace Pilgrim

* Peace is an attitude and a choice we make. For there ever to be peace on earth, peace must become a viable option for people to choose to work out their problems; peace must be the accepted and preferred option.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
- - Brian Tracy


"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
-- Mark Twain

We should preserve in adults the confident and joyful attitude of small children
-- Patricia Verdugo Aguirre

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
-- Oprah Winfrey

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
-- Oprah Winfrey

 

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
-- W. Beran Wolfe

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