Attitude Platitudes

Whether we are running hot, running cold, or sim¬ply running on overload, we can take charge of our atti¬tude by remembering these aphorisms:

Success has more to do with our emotional disposition than with our social position.

Kites rise against the wind, not with it.

A rubber band becomes effective only when it's stretched.

More opportunities exist than there are people willing to seize them.


What matters is what happens in us not to us.

You can tell when you are on the road to success. It's uphill all the way.

When Goliath appeared, David said, "He's so big, I can't miss."

Wait until the lows pass and you will feel on top of things.

Choices, not circumstances, determine how we think.

Because action cures misery change your motion to create positive emotion.

Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present.

To accept failure as final is to be finally a failure.

Failure is the line of least persistence.

Others can stop us temporarily, but we are the only ones who can stop ourselves permanently.

Our lips program our brain for success or failure.

Act "as if" we are successful and we will be.

Attitude determines whether our failures make us or break us.

Life is one percent what happens to us and 99 percent how we react to what happens.

Gratitude adjusts our attitude.