* The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.
Charles Swindoll

* Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz

* Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Sir Walter Scott

* An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer

* People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

* Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

* If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
James Russell Miller

* Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
General Douglas McArthur

* There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Emmanuel

* I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Adams Keller

* Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
Charles Prestwich Scott

* To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

* The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

* A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Hugh Downs

* Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.
Helen Adams Keller

* Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

* Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

* The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton

* I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Browne