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“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

“I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.”

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“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.”

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day”

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.”

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”