Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

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

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

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.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.