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Attitude

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
-- Winston Churchill

“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
-- Francesca Reigler

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
-- William James

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
-- Elbert Hubbard

“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.”
-- Kathleen Turner

Believing

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
-- W.C. Fields

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
-- Sophia Loren

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
-- Henry Ford

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
-- Erma Bombeck

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
-- Abraham Lincoln

“I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”
- Arnold Palmer

Change

"To change what you get you must change who you are."
-- Vernon Howard

"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."
-- Mary S. Almanac

"Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you."
-- Marsha Sinetar

"We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are."
-- Max Depree

Diets & Dieting

“I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.”
-- Totie Fields

“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.”
-- George Bernard Shaw

"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
-- Jackie Gleason

"My wife is a light eater. As soon as it gets light, she starts to eat."
-- Henny Youngman

“I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”
-- Erma Bombeck

"My weight problem is caused by my foot problem - I can't keep them out of the pantry"
-- Thanks to Tracey Habron-Bell from Goddess Retreat for sending this on in.

Drink

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
-- W.C. Fields

Excuses

"If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another."
-- Yiddish Proverb

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
-- Rudyard Kipling

"No one ever excused his way to success."
-- Dave Del Dotto

"Bad excuses are worse than none."
-- Thomas Fuller

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
-- William Shakespeare

"Don't make excuses - make good."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top."
-- O.J. Simpson

"Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human."
-- Amber Deckers

"We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible."
-- François de la Rochefoucauld

Food

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."
-- George Miller

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."
-- Channing Pollock

"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."
-- Buddy Hackett

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
-- Elsa Schiapirelli

Exercise

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
-- Paul Dudley White

Goals

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."
-- Diana Scharf Hunt

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
-- Lawrence J. Peter

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
-- Harriet Braiker

Habits

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
-- Anon.

"Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow."
-- Yiddish Proverb

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
-- Mark Twain

"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables."
-- Spanish Proverb

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
-- Jim Ryun

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you."
-- Frank Crane

Happiness

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
-- James M. Barrie

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
-- Scottish Proverb

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
-- Ingrid Bergman

"You can make yourself happy or miserable — it's the same amount of effort."
-- Ray Bradbury

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-- George Burns

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
- Franklin D Roosevelt

Health

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
-- Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
-- Lauren Bacall

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
-- Judy Garland

Laughter

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge

“Laughter is inner jogging.”
-- Norman Cousins

"Laughter is an instant vacation."
-- Milton Berle

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
-- Arnold Glasow

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge

Stress

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
-- Lao Tzu

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
-- Chinese Proverb

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
-- Etty Hillesum

Success

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
-- Woody Allen

"I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it."
-- Jonathan Winters

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
-- William Feather

"You always pass failure on the way to success."
-- Mickey Rooney

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
-- Mark Twain

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-- Albert Einstein

"People fail forward to success."
-- Mary Kay Ash

“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.”
- Robert Collier

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford

Walking

“It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.”
-- Dr. Howard Murphy

”Walking is man's best medicine.”
-- Hippocrates

”Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
-- Mark Twain

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”
-- Thomas Jefferson

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