"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."
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"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you."
"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress."
"Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them."
"Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings."
"Attitude is everything, so pick a good one"
"The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts."
"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
"Misery is a communicable disease."
"Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"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. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
"The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable."
"All things are ready, if our mind be so."
"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
"You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his"
"It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique."