Tuesday, April 18, 2006

you'll get it

The longer I live, the more I realize the impace of attitudeon life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a chruch...a hime. The remarkable think is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. 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 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is...we are in charge of our attitudes.
When you want a thing bad enough to go and fight for it, to work day and night for it, togive up your sleep and your time for it; If only the desire of it makes your aim strong enough never to tire from it, if life seems all empty and useless without it, and all that you dream and scheme is about it; if gladly you'll sweat for it, fret for it, plan for it, pray for it, all your strength for it; If you'll simply go after the thing that you want with all your capacity, strength and sagacity; Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity; If neither poverty nor cold nor famish nor gaunt nor sickness of pain to body or brain can turn you away from the aim that you want; If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, you'll get it.

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