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I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself. – Caroline Warner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. – Harry Emerson Fosdick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. – Norman Vincent Peale	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney Harris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means. – Eugene E. Brussell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. – Jean Nidetch	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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