Category: Attitude Quotes SMS

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.  ~Frederick Faber

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.pmb

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.  ~Eudora Welty

Wish on everything.  Pink cars are good, especially old ones.  And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars.  Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars.  Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground.  Birthday candles.  Baby teeth.  ~Francesca Lia Block

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.  ~Emory Austin

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.  ~Arthur Rubinstein

I don’t like that man.  I must get to know him better.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.  ~Marcus Antonius

Misery is a communicable disease.  ~Martha Graham

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.  ~Dorothy Day

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.  ~NapoleonMCTO

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.  ~Foster’s Law

The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it.  ~Will FoleyClV

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, quoted in Elevating Ourselves: Henry David Thoreau on Mountains, ed. Wesley T. Mott, 1999

I’ve got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I’m blue. ~Author Unknown

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.  ~J. Brotherton

Wag more.  Bark less.  ~Author Unknown

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one…  ~William Cowper

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.  ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977MBT

Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter. ~Harshit Bhattaram2012mail

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.  ~Adlai Stevenson

Anywhere is paradise; it’s up to you.  ~Author UnknownFELI

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.  ~John Heywood

Never mind the odds against you.  If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do – send for reinforcements?  ~Robert Brault, "Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme," www.robertbrault.com

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?  ~Henry Moore

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.  ~Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.  ~Cavett Robert

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.  ~Charles Caleb Colton

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitmancul

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.  ~Elbert HubbardAE

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts.  It’s what you do with what you have left.  ~Hubert Humphrey

Whenever you fall, pick something up.  ~Oswald Avery

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.  ~Author Unknown

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.  ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893act 3; CTO

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.  ~Thornton WilderCUL

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.  ~Arthur Christopher Benson

Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming.  Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!   ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold

Up is not an easy direction.  It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic.  ~Mike Abrashoff

Grow antennae, not horns. ~James Angell

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.  ~Oscar WildeCUL; If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you didn’t want.  ~Author Unknown; FD

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braunrdb,pmb

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.  ~Italian Proverb

Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true. ~Ella Wheeler WilcoxQSO

If you have nothing to be grateful for check your pulse.  ~Author Unknown

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.  ~Swedish Proverb

The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.  ~Dennis S. Brown

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.  ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.  ~Nicholas Chamfort

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. ~Terri Guillemets

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.comtwitter.com/HawaiianLife/status/3999981121

What is possible?  What you will.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827TPV

Learn to smile at every situation.  See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.  ~Joe Brown

It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice. ~James Whitcomb Riley

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.  ~Author UnknownFELI

Every thought is a seed.  If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.  ~Bill Meyer

If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.  ~Author Unknown

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.  ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.  ~Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCUL

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.  ~Samuel Johnson

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.  ~Francis Rabelais

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them.  ~Author Unknown

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.  ~Charles Buxton

Change your thoughts and you change your world.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

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. ~F. Scott Fitzgeraldpacp

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.  ~Kenneth Clark

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.  ~Robert Frost

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

No vision and you perish; No ideal, and you’re lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. ~Harriet Du Autermont

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966CSN, TPV

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.  ~Author Unknown

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltairecul

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott

"It’s snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.  "So it is."  "And freezing."  "Is it?"  "Yes," said Eeyore.  "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven’t had an earthquake lately."  ~A.A. Milne

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860MBT

Attitudes are contagious.  Are yours worth catching?  ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.  ~Art Linkletter

Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist. ~David Ben-Gurion

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.  ~Author Unknown

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.  ~Joseph Campbell