Attitude 2

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.  ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.  ~Author Unknown

Whenever you fall, pick something up.  ~Oswald Avery

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.  ~Charles Buxton

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories.  He took his own happiness with him.  ~Margot Asquith

Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.  ~Author Unknown

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.  ~Elbert Hubbard

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...  ~William Cowper

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?  ~Henry Moore


We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt...  ~Dorothy Day

Sometimes life's Hell.  But hey!  Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.  ~J. Andrew Helt

I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.  ~Winston Churchill

what counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.  ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain)

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  ~Betty Smith

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.  ~Walt Whitman

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.  ~Ellen Glasgow

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.  ~Wernher von Braun

Your heart is a sun - Joy its stars, Faith a moon, shining in your darkness... ~Terri Guillemets

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.  ~Ancient Proverb
Make your optimism come true.  ~Author Unknown

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.  ~Charles Caleb Colton

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.  ~Confucius

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.  ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.  ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises. ~William Shakespeare

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.  ~English Proverb

Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.  ~Robert Frost

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson