Walter Inglis Anderson famous quotes

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Attitude #Character #Quality

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Joy #Chance #Take A Chance

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Trust #Broken #Vases

Beware by whom you are called sane.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Sane

True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort....
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Life #Real #Effort

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Life #Acting #Fear Not

Focus on the solution, not the problem
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Persistence #Focus #Problem

Our lives improve only when we take chances.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Chance #Take A Chance

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Character #Quality

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Long #Poverty #Performances

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Focus #Anxiety #Quality

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Risk #Vulnerable

It is your choices that make you uniquely you....
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Choices

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Anger #Love You #Mean

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Positive #Thinking

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Change #Anxiety #Action

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Success #Dream #Scary

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Hope #Adversity #Want

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Smile #Fall #Wags

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Trust #Joy #Finding Love

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Pain #Character #Sadness

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Believe #Commitment #Noble

How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Relationship #Loneliness #Needs

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Success #Lasts #Strings

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Hurt #Pain #Anger