Be a fountain, not a drain. — Rex Hudler
Don’t bring negative to my door. — Maya Angelou
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is — Narendra Modi
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. — Oscar Wilde
You are what you are by what you BELIEVE! — Oprah Winfrey
We lost because we told ourselves we lost. — Leo Tolstoy
Those who win are those who think they can. — Richard Bach
When you love life, life will love you back. — Jeffrey Gitomer
It is not the position, but the disposition. — Susan Sontag
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most positive men are the most credulous. — Alexander Pope
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. — Scott Hamilton
The attitudes towards mental health must change — Kate Middleton
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. — John Lubbock
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested. — Helen Clark MacInnes
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. — William Arthur Ward
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. — Elbert Hubbard
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. — Henry David Thoreau
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Albert Einstein
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself — Sophocles
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude. — Charles R. Swindoll
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. — Abraham Lincoln
Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. — Robert H. Schuller
What really matters is what you do with what you have. — H. G. Wells
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. — John C. Maxwell
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. — Henri Matisse
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others. — Jeffrey Gitomer
If you can’t change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. — Elie Wiesel
Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day. — Ronnie Milsap
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. — Confucius
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. — Abraham Lincoln
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? — Henry Moore
Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything in second place. — William C. Bryant
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. — Robert H. Schuller
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. — James Dewar
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. — Lou Holtz
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. — A. C. Benson
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time. — Dalai Lama
You have to ‘be” before you can ‘do’, and do before you can ‘have’. — Zig Ziglar
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. — David Bailey
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome. — E. A. Bucchianeri
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. — Epictetus
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. — Konrad Adenauer
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. — Beck
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. — Leo Tolstoy
When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you’re an asshole — John Lydon
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. — Lin Yutang
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. — David Viscott
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. — Galileo Galilei
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. — Henry Miller
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. — Hans Selye
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. — Zig Ziglar
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. — Shakti Gawain
Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. — Charles Curtis
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. — Patricia Neal
The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about! — Zig Ziglar
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. — Elbert Hubbard
A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. — Tom Stoppard
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others. — Alan Cohen
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. — Myles Munroe
The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change. — David Cottrell
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. — Federico Fellini
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent. — Taylor Hackford
Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff. — Mike Davies
A leader’s attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions. — John C. Maxwell
Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Its OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Whos to say? I think its an attitude. — Lady Gaga
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. — Oscar Wilde
If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened! — James Van Praagh
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. — Joan Lunden
What’s the point? was my attitude. We’re all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat. — Meg Cabot
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish. — John C. Maxwell
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. — Nicolas Chamfort
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. — Carlos Castaneda
Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes. — Norman Vincent Peale
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. — Eudora Welty
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw
I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another — John Lennon
We have to go for what we think we’re fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we’ve been in the past — Vivek Paul
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done. — Robert Foster Bennett
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. — Marianne Williamson
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. — Zig Ziglar
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings. — Chris Gardner
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. — Doug Larson
“Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.” — Mac Anderson
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. — Og Mandino
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude. — Carly Simon
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health. — Jean Piaget
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. — Benjamin Franklin
Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are. — Frank Ocean
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. — Bertrand Russell
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don’t know how to quit. — Robert H. Schuller
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor E. Frankl
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. — Martha Graham
Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. — Rita Mae Brown
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
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. — Maya Angelou
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you. — Louise Hay
Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life. — Arjun Rampal
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. — Norman Vincent Peale
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself. — Albert Schweitzer
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It’s called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You can’t really control what people think. You can’t really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have. — Britney Spears
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. — Sam Ewing
I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow. — Michelle Akers
Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. — Cordelia Fine
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. — Agnes Repplier
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue — Guillermo del Toro
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. — Steven Biko
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity. — Giancarlo Esposito
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. — Wade Boggs
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. — Napoleon Hill
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. — James MacGregor Burns
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. — George H. Mead
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are. — Joel Osteen
You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, ‘What’s in it for me?’ — Lewis Grizzard
There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley
My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. … I am simply basted together until after breakfast. — Gladys Taber
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy
Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. — Adriana Lima
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me. — William James
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. — Bruce Lee
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. — Samuel Johnson
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. — Colin Powell
You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings. — Dalai Lama
It’s easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way…It’s when difficult challenges rise before us…that attitude becomes the difference maker. — John C. Maxwell
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. — Confucius
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new. — Martin Buber
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. — Henry Cloud
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. — Harold Geneen
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. — Wilferd Peterson
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself — Oprah Winfrey
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. — Pat Riley
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. — W. Clement Stone
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. — Brian Tracy
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead. — William Arthur Ward
If politicians get money to spend and don’t have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending. — James M. Buchanan
Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they’re carrying is you. — Tom Waits
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. — Albert Einstein
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. — Irving Berlin
It’s really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially – to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years. — Richard Hell
Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion. — Dalai Lama
If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging. — Henry David Thoreau
Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there’s less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better. — Reggie Fils-Aime
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. — William J. Clinton
Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out. — Kristin Armstrong
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. — W. Clement Stone
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. — Charles Curtis
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live. — Elizabeth Edwards
People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother’s fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another. — Damian Thompson
I think that’s because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I’m using for their setting. — Sidney Sheldon
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early ’80s. — Noam Chomsky
I don’t personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn’t having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones. — Lev Yilmaz
Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren’t to your liking, change your liking. — Rick Steves
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous. — Art Linkletter
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud
I’m something totally different. There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they’re all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I’m totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion. — Samantha Mumba
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. — David Landes
Too many actors are trying to be cool: they’re trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you’re either cool or you’re not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late. — Bruce Campbell
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. — Emmylou Harris
The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love. — Charles Webster Leadbeater
The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the Golden Rule – the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same. — Isadore Sharp
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning. — Megan McCafferty
What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized — Shashi Tharoor
Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. — M. Russell Ballard
Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness. — Alan Cohen
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. — Carl Rogers
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says ‘we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. ‘Spare me the grim litany of the ‘realist;’ give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day. — Colin Powell
Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It’s only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. — Amby Burfoot
Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn’t necessarily another calamity. — Ruth Stout
I’ve never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he’s stuck on roach patrol. — Carl Hiaasen
Do what you love. Love what you do. Take less. Give more. Never quit. Never follow. Be passionate. Be bold. Be honest. Respect people. Respect the environment. Always bring out the best in your family and friends. Change is the only constant. Fear is an illusion. Attitude is everything. — Sonnie Trotter
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting “Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?” then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
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 Buscaglia
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you’re coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it’s an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff. — Denis Waitley
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest. — Dale Carnegie
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication…. Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. — John Dewey
I don’t have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude. You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone. — Serena Williams
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. — Calvin Coolidge
Genesis 1 logs God’s commitment to excellence when it says, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability. — R. Kent Hughes
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades – according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude — Sterling W Sill
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others’ happiness. — Dalai Lama
More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the “bad” behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes. — David D. Burns
Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health. — Barack Obama
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring. — Fred Rogers
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems. — Dalai Lama
I love the focus and bravery of European designers, but I love the nonchalance and throwaway aspect of America that has made Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein two of the greatest icons. I try to bridge those two worlds in my work. The clothes may be couture on the runway but there’s an attitude that’s very street and that comes from America. — Vera Wang
For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he’s finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment – all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don’t. — David Simon
