John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Only you can control your future.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

Your reaction to a situation determines whether it will be positive or negative. If you're determined to label a situation positive, no matter how it appears, the result MUST be positive. If you label something negative, that MUST be your experience. It's never too late to change a situation because you have an unlimited supply of positive sticky labels! Your life is always your call!

We are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

My attitude affects my actions. So, if I have a negative attitude about it, then it is going to show up in the way I respond, but if I have a positive attitude, then I start looking for the things I can do that will make my life better and make the lives of people around me better.

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

I've come to realize that life is what you make it.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system.