Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!"
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Positive Attitude
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
Mary McCarthy
Author
"We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story."
Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"Do something worth remembering."
Marty Robbins
Singer, Songwriter
"Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not."
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"Whatever you do, do with all your might."
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"We are what we believe we are."
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"Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
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"The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!"
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"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order"
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"Funny is an attitude."
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"How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!"
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"Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe."
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"…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star."
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"You never judge a day by the weather!"
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"Power dwells with cheerfulness."
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"And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?"
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"A positive attitude toward life is always better."
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