The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.  It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  It will make or break a company, a church, a home.  The remarkable think is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.  I’m convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.  And so it is with you . . . we are in charge of our attitude.  [PDF]
–Charles Swindol

Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.
–Theodore Roosevelt

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, we do not see the ones which open for us.
–Alexander G. Bell

I don’t want people who want to dance.  I want people who have to dance.  [PDF]
–George Balanchine

People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
–William James

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.  [PDF]
–Henry Ford

Hire for attitude, train for skills.
–Michael Werner (technically, author unknown)

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
–Thoreau

A negative perspective limits self-confidence and the ability to take necessary risks.  If you focus hard enough on why something won’t work, chances are it won’t.
–John M. Capozzi

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
–Author Unknown

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  [PDF]
–Abraham Lincoln

If your life is anything less than your wildest dreams, you’re being shortchanged.
–Label on a box of Celestial Seasonings tea bags

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
–Vauve Nargues

Just ask yourself that utterly simple question:  What do I want to be doing?  And stop ignoring the answer.  [PDF]
–Richard Bach

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
–Albert Einstein

Sometimes you need to look reality in the eye, and deny it.  [PDF]
–Garrison Keillor

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