Category: Attitude

Enduring Defeat

You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

— Maya Angelou —

You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure…

Hardship

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

— C. S. Lewis —

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Gratitude and Choices

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.

— Robert Braathe —

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices…

Right Attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

— Thomas Jefferson —

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude…

Failure is a Choice

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

— John Maxwell —

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective. ~John Maxwell

Thorns or Roses

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

— Abraham Lincoln —

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Your Greatest Day

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

— John Maxwell —

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up. ~John Maxwell

Detach From Noise

To find peace, you have to be willing to lose your connection with all the people, places and things that create all the noise in your life.

— Unknown —

To find peace, you have to be willing to lose your connection with all the people, places and things that create all the noise in your life…

Concerns and Influence

Be a light, not a judge, be a model, not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing, and cynicism, all of which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

— Stephen Covey —

Be a light, not a judge, be a model, not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing, and cynicism, all of which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive…