"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." ~ James Branch Cabell
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively. ~ Katharine Hepburn
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ~ Maya Angelou
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~ Colin Powell
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself. ~ Carl Rogers
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
I cried at first... and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy. ~ Frances Noyes Hart, The Sun, 2/06
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards. ~ Albert Camus
Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in like form. ~ Louise Hay, Heal Your Body
I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever. ~ Jesse Owens
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights of our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. ~ Earl Nightingale