Attitude for Success and Happiness - Quotes

Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy. And the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioningly.

Walt Disney

Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine…An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

Walter Russell

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities.

Walter Dill Scott

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Hans Selye

. . . Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Victor E. Frankl

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best

Wallace D. Wattles

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

Muhammad Ali

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic.

The Zurich Axioms

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 F. Buscalgia

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Chinese Proverb

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Denis Waitley

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

Viktor E. Frankl

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Scott Hamilton

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Green Hubbard

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important
and by far the most life-changing.

Zig Ziglar

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

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

The man who thinks he can:If you think you are beaten, you are,If you think that you dare not, you don't,If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,It's almost certain you won't.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavours; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
Plato


Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Anon

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching."
Anon

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a purpose.
Helen Keller