Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use sel f disciplineuntil you

create a positive mental attitude - your mental attitude a ttracts to you everything that makes you what you are. We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can ta lk ourselvesinto victory Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more produ ctive lives. Lloyd Newell Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that deter mines our successor failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you befor e you ever do anything about it.You are overcome by the fact because you think y ou are if you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most ass uredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in eve ry opportunity. Winston Churchill Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-fou r hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how t o harness and control this great force Positive thinking won t let you do anything but it will let you do everything bett er thannegative thinking will Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than cir cumstances,than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, gif tedness, or skill. Charles Swindoll A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough p eople to make it worth the effort Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Dean Naylor You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-conf idence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even t he simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the atti tude you bring tolife; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your min d looks at what happens. John Homer Miller If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops somelatent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstancesmay seem to be Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. Hans Selye It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different.They are not different

THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN: If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think th at you dare not, you don't, If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, It's almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world you'll find,Success begins with a fellow's will, It's all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed, you are,You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always goTo the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can. Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generatesthoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradua lly turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be Regardless of circumstances, each man lives in a world of his own making The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of i t and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to tak e the path to the right.Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacilla tor. Thus you build characte Thought creates character