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...ahome. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is out attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.
-Charles Swindoll
your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses.
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.
The gift is yours--
it is an amazing journey--
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins.
-Bob Noawad
The tide of opportunity comes to everyone.
People often handle life as they do bad weather.
They while away the time waiting for it to stop.
Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it.
When your chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,
for time and chance happen to everyone.
Take a second look at what appears to be someone's "good luck".
You'll find not luck but preparation, planning and success-producing thinking.
When you are prepared for opportunity your chance for success is sure to come.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The key that insures your success in any endeavor, is desire.
If you are willing to pay the price,
even your circumstances will change.
If you want something badly enough,
you are sure to get it.
Reality forms around the commitments you make.
Your desires will in time externalize themselves into concrete facts.
Obstacles don't matter very much.
Pain or other circumstances can be there.
But if you want to do something bad enough,
you'll find a way to get it done.
You only have to love a thing greatly to get it.
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a
Dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a
Vision of hope.
Look well,
Therefore to this day.
The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life is simply your will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. Your mind will amaze your body. You must find the energy and determination to keep going. Keep telling yourself, you can do it, you can do it. When you believe you can, you can. In belief there is power. It opens your eyes, your opportunities become plain, and your vision becomes reality. You will succeed when you believe you can succeed. The only limit to your realization of tomorrow will be your doubts of today. Everything is possible if you believe it is.
Life is a set of circumstances that you can chance,
improve, and make better day by day.
It's your decision: it's in your hands.
Just like the potter at the wheel,
you are the force that turns and moves
the clay into a thing of beauty.
Like the painter's brush depicting
something fresh and new and picturesque,
you can create the scenery that's best for you.
Each person has the power to take
control of every circumstance in life-
to chance, improve,
and make it better day by day.
Not one of us can say:
"I must accept whatever comes my way,"
because the way we choose to go
through life is our decision.
The power of change is always in your hands.
-Barbara J. Hall
-Lucille Ball
