30 THOUGHTS THAT SHAPED MY ATTITUDE

I found out early in life that more than anything else, my attitude influences the outcome of my life. Here are thirty thoughts that shaped my attitude to life.

1. Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

2. Anonymous: Your attitudes and the choices you make today will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely.

3. Brian Tracy: You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing tom master you.

4. Catherine Pulsifer: Your words, your expressions will reflect your attitude. Be conscious of how and what you say.

5.  Confucius: To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

6. Demosthenes: Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

7. Ella Williams: Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

8. Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it

9. Emmet Fox: You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

10. Francis Bacon: Knowledge is power.

11. Frank Lloyd Wright: The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

12. Fulton J. Sheen: The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts.

13. Helen Keller: When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

14. Henry David Thoreau: Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

15. Henry Ford: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

16. Isaac Bashevis Singer: If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.

17. James Anthony Froude: You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

18. James T. McKay: No matter the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop.

19. Katharine Hepburn: Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

20. Lou Holtz: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

21. Margaret Fuller: If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it.

22. Marianne Williamson: As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

23. Martha Washington: The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

24. Michael Korda: To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

25. Napoleon Hill: Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.

26. Roger W. Babson: When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

27. Sally Aw Sian: Life’s challenges spur you on to greater efforts, train you to meet subsequent challenges and finally provide you with the moral and spiritual fiber to avoid arrogance in success and despair in failure.

28. Thomas Edison: Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

29. 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.

30. Tony Bennett: It pays to be different. When people see you as different, they are attracted to you. The best way to be different is to be yourself.

Terry is a Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and Author.