Our outlook casts the light that colors everything. With steady courage and a dash of play, we can tilt toward possibility. As James Branch Cabell quipped: “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“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.” ~ 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

“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