quotes tagged with 'attitude'

"... improve upon and make beautiful everything around you."

Author: Brigham Young, Source: (Deseret News, Aug. 8, 1860, 177)Saved by rpage in attitude 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude-- the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire, and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head held high. We are gods in the chrysalis.

Author: Dale Carnegie, Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People, p. 73Saved by amberb in happiness attitude courage desire sincereprayer 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain-- and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Author: Dale Carnegie, Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.14Saved by amberb in attitude forgiveness criticism 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]

A little more kindness and a little less creed;
A little more giving and a little less need;
A little more smile and a little less frown;
A little less kicking a man when he’s down;
A little more “we” and a little less “I”
A little more laughs and a little less cry;
A little more flowers on the pathway of life;
And fewer on graves at the end of the strife.

Author: Unknown, Source: UnknownSaved by ImaWriterIII in attitude kindness cheerful poem unknown creed 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]

“Remember that doubt and faith cannot exist in the mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Whereas doubt destroys, faith fulfills. An attitude of faith brings one closer to God and to His purposes.”

Author: Thomas S. Monson, Source: http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,538-1-4773-1,00.htmlSaved by tengaio in faith attitude doubt 4 years ago[save this] [permalink]

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Put a bunch of Renees in a classroom, and give them the space and time to explore mathematics for themselves, and you could go a long way. Or imagine a country where Renee's diffedness is not the exception, but a cultural trait, embedded as deeply as the culture of honor in the Cumberland Plateau. Now that would be a country good at math.

Author: Malcom Gladwell, Source: Outliers, p. 246-247Saved by mlsscaress in success ability attitude persistence behavior honor environment time capacity math cultural 4 years ago[save this] [permalink]

“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, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, 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 thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will 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 one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

Author: Charles R. Swindoll, Source: UnknownSaved by kevinmiller in attitude 5 years ago[save this] [permalink]

There’s a fine line between being indifferent with the state of things and using Reddit to express your every displeasure with all facets of life. In between is the discontentment you can use to light a fire under your productivity.


The key is to focus on the discontent with things that you can actually change. Get riled up about your programming environment and submit a patch. Become annoyed with how the text flows on your company homepage and rewrite it. Feel guilty about the UI of a common action in your application and redesign it.


God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Reinhold Niebuhr

When you find people who embrace this idea, you’ll usually find people with exactly the pointed drive that gives them the power to Get Things Done. Hire them.

Author: David Heinemeier , Source: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1436-pick-discontentment-wi...Saved by mlsscaress in success happiness attitude productivity passion career 5 years ago[save this] [permalink]

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Author: William Shakespeare, Source: Saved by bluesfreak in attitude adversity obstacles 5 years ago[save this] [permalink]

From what sources, then, can we borrow strength without building weakness? Only from the sources that build the internal capacity to deal with whatever the situation calls for. For instance, a surgeon borrows strength fro his developed skill and knowledge; a mile runner from his disciplined body, strong legs, powerful lungs; a missionary from his developed capacity to love and teach and testify.


In other words, we ask the question:  What is it that the situation demands? What strength, what skill, what knowledge, what attitude? Obviously the possessions, the appearances, or the credentials of the surgeon, the athlete, or the missionary are only symbols of what is needed and are therefore worthless and deceiving without the substance.


But when we borrow strenth from divine sources and eternal principals, the very nature of the borrowing demands our living better, and we thus build strength inside.


"Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life..." (John 6:27.)

Author: Stephen R. Covey, Source: "Spiritual Roots of Human Relations", Deseret Book 1970 - 8th printing, pp. 13Saved by mlsscaress in development strength attitude skill knowledge build capacity real substance source 5 years ago[save this] [permalink]

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