Transform Your Mindset: Quotes to Shift Your Perspective - page 24

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.  Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness.  Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.
 Arthur W. Pink
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
Those who win are those who think they can.
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
 William Cowper
It is not the position, but the disposition.
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
 Timothy Gowers
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.
 Karl Popper
I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.
 James Alison
Right attitudes produces right action
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
 Charles William Eliot
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
 B.K.S. Iyengar
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
 M. Scott Peck
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
 Pat Riley
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
 Viktor E. Frankl
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.
 Matt Bahr
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
 Parker Posey
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
 Walter Scott