Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.


Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.


We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.


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.


We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.


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.


We lost because we told ourselves we lost.


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


What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.


What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.


Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.


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.


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


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


Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.


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


You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.


You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.


You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

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