Motivational Quotes

Attitude

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Attitude

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Stone, W. Clement

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

Rohn, Jim

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Haskins, Henry S.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Buck, Pearl S.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Ward, C. M.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Nightingale, Earl

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Uhland

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Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Caesar, Julius

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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Langbridge, Frederick

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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Garrison, Zina

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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Feherty, David

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Speer, Robert E.

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Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Evert, Chris

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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Lombardi, Vince

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You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.

Ziglar, Zig

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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Wooden, John

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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Riley, Pat

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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Marshall, George

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Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Mandino, Og

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Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Truman, Harry S

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Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Swindoll, Charles

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Swindoll, Charles

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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Wilson, Mclandburgh

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Pope, Alexander

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He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

Thurber, James

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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Desai, Morarji

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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

Churchill, Winston

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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Turner, Ted

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Swindoll, Charles

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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Ross, Ruth

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Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo