ATTITUDE
“Quality of Life Series”
3/2/04
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HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #2 (circumstances)
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“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #3 (attitude)
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“I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.”
Sugar Ray Robinson, 1920-1989, American Boxer
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #4 (attitude)
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“Your attitude determines your altitude.” Source unknown
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #5 (health)
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“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. “
Patricia Neal, Actress & stroke victim
HAVE SOMEONE READ: “The Anatomy of an Illness”:
As Perceived by the Patient (health)
Today in the Word, MBI, December 18, 1991
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In, Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, Cousins reasoned the reverse was true. So he borrowed a movie projector and prescribed his own treatment, consisting of Marx Brothers films and old "Candid Camera" reruns. It didn't take long for him to discover that 10 minutes of laughter provided two hours of pain free sleep. Amazingly, his debilitating disease was eventually reversed. After the account of his victory appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Cousins received more than 3000 letters from appreciative physicians throughout the world.
LEADER READ: “Positive Thinking” EXCERPT
Pastor Ron ron@pastornet.net.au
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I read of an old man of eighty-seven who was
killed in an accident. The autopsy revealed that he had been suffering from
several diseases, any one of which could have killed him many years previously.
His widow was asked the secret of his long life. She replied simply: ‘I don’t
really know; except that, every night before he went to sleep, he said, “I’ll be
better tomorrow”. That man displayed a positive attitude to life. A lady here in
my home state of Tasmania who died earlier this year at the age of 94 left a
substantial portion of her estate to a local charity. She had suffered from a
debilitating disease and dementia for many years yet always made light of her
difficulties. Her favorite remark was “maybe I’ll improve with age.”
These two examples point to the fact that positive thinking can have a marked
effect on our lives. Of all the Apostles, Paul experienced hardships that would
have deterred a lesser man. Yet in his witness to others and in his own life he
displayed a positive attitude. He urged the church at Corinth not to receive
God’s grace in vain for this was the time of God’s favor and of salvation. His
letters to the Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians and Philemon, all written in
captivity, are examples of profound and positive teaching at a time of great
personal adversity. David went through a difficult period when King Saul,
jealous of David’s popularity, made several attempts to kill him. Yet David
remained positive and refused to harm the king, relying on God to save him from
all his enemies. Psalm 18 is David’s wonderful song of praise and thanksgiving
that concludes in verse 50 with one of the most positive statements in the
Bible.
Psalm 18:50
He gives great deliverance to His king,
And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever.
LEADER: Does the Lord’s lovingkindness effect your reaction to your circumstances?
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #6 (circumstances)
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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #7 (circumstances/health)
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“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.”
Leo Buscaglia, American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #8 (circumstances)
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
John Homer Miller
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But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #9 (circumstances)
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“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus. 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #10 (circumstances)
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“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
Lena Horne, Singer
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 11 (circumstances)
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“You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.”
Christopher Reeve, 1952-, American Actor, Director
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #12 (circumstances)
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“Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”
Euripides, BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #13 (circumstances)
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: To choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way. “
Viktor Frankl, concentration camp survivor.
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Philippians 2:12-18
12Therefore,
my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now
much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and
trembling, 13for it is God who works in you to will and to act
according to his good purpose.
14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that
you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked
and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16as
you hold out[1]
the word of life--in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not
run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am being poured out like a
drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad
and rejoice with all of you. 18So you too should be glad and rejoice
with me.
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In the days before self-operating elevators, there was a lady who was an elevator operator in a large university in Japan. She could think of no more monotonous work than operating an elevator all day long. She was miserable and grumbled every time someone spoke to her.
One day it occurred to her that she could influence young students to a brighter way of seeing life. But to do that she will have to change her own attitude towards life!
The next day she started with a smile on her face. It was extremely difficult for her, but by sheer will power she was determined to cheer up whoever rode in her elevator.
As the years went by, people sought her advice more and more. Many were helped by her bright attitude and her optimistic view of life. She became a "Solver of Problems!".
When she finally died, a few thousand people attended her funeral. She gained her fame because she changed her attitude about life and desired the bright side to life for her and for those with whom she came in contact.
The Bible encourages us to change our mental and spiritual attitude because it dictates our lifestyle.
HAVE SOMEONE READ: 1 Thessalonians 5:15
15Make
sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each
other and to everyone else.
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #14 (relationships)
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“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.”
Joseph Addison, 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #15 (relationships)
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude
Timothy Bentley, Canadian Family Therapist
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #16 (relationships)
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‘We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
Elbert Hubbard, 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #17 (relationships)
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“It is not the position, but the disposition.”
J. E. Dinger, health professional
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #18 (relationships)
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“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
Glenn Clark
The winner glories in the good; the whiner majors in the mediocre. Winners’ thinking processes differ from other people’s. As part of their normal, moment-to-moment stream of consciousness, winners think constantly in terms of I can and I will. Losers concentrate their waking thoughts on…what they should have done … would have done … what they can’t do. When the mind’s self-talk is positive, performance is more likely to be successful.
The huge majority of our negative doubts and fears are imaginary or beyond our control.
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“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, 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
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“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
Chretien Malesherbes, 1721-1794, French Statesman
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
John Wooden, 1910-, American Basketball Coach
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #22 (work)
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“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
William John Bennett, 1943-, American Federal Official
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #23 (work)
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“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Think You Can” (success)
Plaque on the wall of Golfer Arnold Palmer’s office
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
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“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.”
Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
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“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Inventor, Philanthropist
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #28 (competition)
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“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
Golnik Eric
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #29 (competition)
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“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”
Chris Evert. 1954-, American Tennis Champion
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #30 (challenges/life)
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“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.”
Pat Riley, 1945, American Basketball Coach
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 31 (life)
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“There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.”
Ruth Ross, Author
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 32 (life)
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“You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.”
Dr. Jerome Brunner, Child Psychologist
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 33 (life)
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“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer/Author/Speaker
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #34 (attitude/life)
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“Don't be against things so much as for things.”
Colonel Harland Sanders, 1890-1980, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 35 (life)
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“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
Anais Nin, 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #36 (life)
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”
Irving Berlin, 1888-1989, Russian Composer
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #37 (life)
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Both the hummingbird and the vulture fly over our nation's deserts. All vultures see is rotting meat, because that is what they look for. They thrive on that diet. But hummingbirds ignore the smelly flesh of dead animals. Instead, they look for the colorful blossoms of desert plants. The vultures live on what was. They live on the past. They fill themselves with what is dead and gone. But hummingbirds live on what is. They seek new life. They fill themselves with freshness and life. Each bird finds what it is looking for. We all do.
Steve Goodier, Quote Magazine, in Reader's Digest, May, 1990.
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 38 (life)
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“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven”
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 39 (life)
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“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees,”
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 40 (life)
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“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
Brian Tracy, American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
LEADER: You say: "It's
impossible"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Luke 18:27
27 But
He said, "The things that are impossible with people are possible
with God."
LEADER: God says: All
things are possible
LEADER: You say: "I'm too tired"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Matthew 11:28-30
28 "Come
to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you
rest.
29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, andYOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
LEADER: God says:
I will give you rest
LEADER: You say:
"Nobody really loves me"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: John 3:16
16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
LEADER: God says:
I love you
LEADER: You say:
"I can't go on"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: II Corinthians 12:9
9 And
He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in
weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so
that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
LEADER: God says:
My grace is sufficient
LEADER: You say:
"I
can't figure things out"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Proverbs 3:5-6
5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
LEADER: God says:
I will direct your steps
LEADER: You say:
"I can't do it"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Philippians 4:13
13 I
can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
LEADER: God says:
You can do all things
LEADER: You say:
"I'm not able"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: II Corinthians 9:8
8 And
God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all
sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
LEADER: God says: I am able
LEADER: You say:
"It's not worth it"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Roman 8:28
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to
those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
LEADER: God says:
It will be worth it
LEADER: You say:
"I can't forgive myself"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: I John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
LEADER: God says:
I Forgive you
LEADER: You say:
"I can't manage"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Philippians 4:19
19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
LEADER: God says:
I will supply all your needs
LEADER: You say:
"I'm afraid"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: II Timothy 1:7
7 For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
LEADER: God says:
I have not given you a spirit of fear
LEADER: You say: "I'm always worried and
frustrated"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: I Peter 5:7
7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
LEADER: God says:
Cast all your cares on ME
LEADER: You say: "I don't have enough
faith"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: Romans 12:3
For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
LEADER: God says:
I've given everyone a measure of faith
LEADER: You say:
"I'm not
smart enough"
HAVE SOMEONE READ: 1 Corinthians 1:30
30 But
by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who
became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and (4) sanctification, and redemption,
LEADER: God says:
I give you wisdom
LEADER: You say: "I feel all alone"
HAVE SOMEONE READ:
Hebrews 13:5
5 Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “ I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,"
LEADER: God says: I will never leave you or forsake you
LEADER: You say: “Thank you, Lord.”
LEADER: Believe God is there just for you!
How’s your attitude now?
HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 41 (life)
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“You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.”
Susanna Clark
HAVE SOMEONE READ:
Philippians 2:1-8
Be Like Christ
1 Therefore
if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any
consolation of love, if there is any fellowship
of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the
same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility
of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also
for the interests of others.
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard
equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being
made in the likeness of men.
8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by
becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
LEADER READ: QUOTE # 42 (life)
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“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great.”
Charles Swindoll, American Pastor, Author
LEADER READ: DAILY 2 MINUTE ATTITUDE DRILL:
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· TO EVERYONE: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person.
· EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated.
· FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.
· A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
PRAYER REQUESTS AND PRAISES:
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QUOTE #2
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
QUOTE #3
“I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.”
Sugar Ray Robinson, 1920-1989, American Boxer
QUOTE #4
“Your attitude determines your altitude.” Source unknown
QUOTE #5
“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. “
Patricia Neal, Actress & stroke victim
“The Anatomy of an Illness”: As Perceived by the Patient
In, Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, Cousins reasoned the reverse was true. So he borrowed a movie projector and prescribed his own treatment, consisting of Marx Brothers films and old "Candid Camera" reruns. It didn't take long for him to discover that 10 minutes of laughter provided two hours of pain free sleep. Amazingly, his debilitating disease was eventually reversed. After the account of his victory appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Cousins received more than 3000 letters from appreciative physicians throughout the world.
QUOTE #6
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
QUOTE #7
“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.”
Leo Buscaglia, American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author
QUOTE #8
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
John Homer Miller
QUOTE #9
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus. 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
QUOTE #10
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
Lena Horne, Singer
QUOTE # 11
“You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.”
Christopher Reeve, 1952-, American Actor, Director
QUOTE #12
“Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”
Euripides, BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
QUOTE #13
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: To choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way. “
Viktor Frankl, concentration camp survivor.
Philippians 2:12-18
.
In the days before self-operating elevators, there was a lady who was an elevator operator in a large university in Japan. She could think of no more monotonous work than operating an elevator all day long. She was miserable and grumbled every time someone spoke to her.
One day it occurred to her that she could influence young students to a brighter way of seeing life. But to do that she will have to change her own attitude towards life!
The next day she started with a smile on her face. It was extremely difficult for her, but by sheer will power she was determined to cheer up whoever rode in her elevator.
As the years went by, people sought her advice more and more. Many were helped by her bright attitude and her optimistic view of life. She became a "Solver of Problems!".
When she finally died, a few thousand people attended her funeral. She gained her fame because she changed her attitude about life and desired the bright side to life for her and for those with whom she came in contact.
The Bible encourages us to change our mental and spiritual attitude because it dictates our lifestyle.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
QUOTE #14
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.”
Joseph Addison, 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
QUOTE #15
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude
Timothy Bentley, Canadian Family Therapist
QUOTE #16
‘We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
Elbert Hubbard, 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
QUOTE #17
“It is not the position, but the disposition.”
J. E. Dinger, health professional
QUOTE #18
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
Glenn Clark
The winner glories in the good; the whiner majors in the mediocre. Winners’ thinking processes differ from other people’s. As part of their normal, moment-to-moment stream of consciousness, winners think constantly in terms of I can and I will. Losers concentrate their waking thoughts on…what they should have done … would have done … what they can’t do. When the mind’s self-talk is positive, performance is more likely to be successful.
The huge majority of our negative doubts and fears are imaginary or beyond our control.
QUOTE # 19
“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, 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
QUOTE # 20
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
Chretien Malesherbes, 1721-1794, French Statesman
QUOTE #21
“Nothing will work unless you do.” John Wooden, 1910-, American Basketball Coach
QUOTE #22
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
William John Bennett, 1943-, American Federal Official
QUOTE #23
QUOTE #24
QUOTE #25
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
“Think You Can”
Plaque on the wall of Golfer Arnold Palmer’s office
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
QUOTE # 26
“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.”
Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
QUOTE # 27
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Inventor, Philanthropist
QUOTE #28
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
Golnik Eric
QUOTE #29
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”
Chris Evert. 1954-, American Tennis Champion
QUOTE #30
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.”
Pat Riley, 1945, American Basketball Coach
QUOTE # 31
“There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.”
Ruth Ross, Author
QUOTE # 32
“You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.”
Dr. Jerome Brunner, Child Psychologist
QUOTE # 33
“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer/Author/Speaker
QUOTE #34
“Don't be against things so much as for things.”
Colonel Harland Sanders, 1890-1980, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
QUOTE # 35
“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
Anais Nin, 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer
QUOTE #36
“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”
Irving Berlin, 1888-1989, Russian Composer
QUOTE #37
Both the hummingbird and the vulture fly over our nation's deserts. All vultures see is rotting meat, because that is what they look for. They thrive on that diet. But hummingbirds ignore the smelly flesh of dead animals. Instead, they look for the colorful blossoms of desert plants. The vultures live on what was. They live on the past. They fill themselves with what is dead and gone. But hummingbirds live on what is. They seek new life. They fill themselves with freshness and life. Each bird finds what it is looking for. We all do.
Steve Goodier, Quote Magazine, in Reader's Digest, May, 1990.
QUOTE # 38
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven”
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
QUOTE # 39
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees,”
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
QUOTE # 40
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
Brian Tracy, American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Luke 18:27
Matthew 11:28-30
John 3:16
II Corinthians 12:9
Proverbs 3:5-6
Philippians 4:13
II Corinthians 9:8
Roman 8:28
I John 1:9
Philippians 4:19
II Timothy 1:7
I Peter 5:7
Romans 12:3
1 Corinthians 1:30
QUOTE # 41
“You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.”
Susanna Clark
Philippians 2:1-8