Quotes about Attitude
When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
— Dale Carnegie
Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude
— Dale Carnegie
There is nothing either good or bad," said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes it so.
— Dale Carnegie
I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.
— Dale Carnegie
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.
— Dale Carnegie
As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.
— Dale Carnegie
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …
— Dale Carnegie
It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.
— Dale Carnegie
Son, you are 1500 miles from home, and you don't feel any different, do you? I knew you wouldn't, because you took with you the one thing that is the cause of all your trouble, that is, yourself. There is nothing wrong with either your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." When you realize that, son, come home, for you will be cured.
— Dale Carnegie
Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.
— Dale Carnegie
William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.
— Dale Carnegie
Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.
— Wanda Brunstetter