Saturday, October 4, 2008

Attitude

• Over the years, I have pushed myself mentally and I have pushed myself physically. A lot of people say, 'John Havlicek never gets tired.' Well, I get tired. It's just a matter of pushing myself. I say to myself, 'He's as tired as I am; who's going to win this mental battle?' It's just a matter of mental toughness. - John Havlicek, basketball Hall-of-Famer
• You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way. - John Wooden, former UCLA basketball coach
• The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts. - John Smith, Olympic Champion
• Attitude controls behavior. - Unknown
• People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. - William James
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone. - Dan Gable
• When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary! - John C. Maxwell
• The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
• Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
• Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
• Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Betty Smith
• Winning is a habit, but unfortunately so is losing. - Vince Lombardi
• A great many people seem to end up over the hill without ever having actually climbed it! - Unknown
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph W. Emerson
• Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail. - John C. Maxwell
• "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders. - George P. Burnham
• Ability is important, dependability is critical! - Alexander Lockheart
• The wise does at once what the fool does at last. - Gracian Baltasar
• Some people who yearn for endless life don't even know what to do with a rainy afternoon. - Harvey H. Potthoff
• To avoid criticism......do nothing...say nothing...be nothing! - Elbert Hubbard
• Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. - Irving Berlin
• The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. - Frederick Speakman
• Yes, it's true: We can't control the wind or the rain or the other vagaries of weather. But we can tack our sails such that we can steer the course we desire. - Unknown
• Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. - Brian Tracy
• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher
• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Josh Billings
• Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity. - Omar Idn Al-Halif
• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain
• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
• Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. - John Huston Finley
• I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. - Akeem Olajuwon
• She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it. - Mary's Almanac
• The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler
• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
• 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
• It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. - Millard Fuller
• No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Unknown
• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson
• To help me stay positively charged I will practice maintaining a positive attitude each day. - Unknown
• There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton
• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson
• He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. - Thomas Fuller
• 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. - Vince Lombardi