Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Billings, Josh

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, 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 church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday 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% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Swindoll, Charles

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Euripides

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

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Tracy, Brian

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Blandi, Tom

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.

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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Thurber, James

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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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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.

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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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You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Reeve, Christopher

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Horne, Lena

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Washington, Martha

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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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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn Johnston

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge.

Robinson, James H.

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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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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Miller, John Homer

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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

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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Swindoll, Charles

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Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Swindoll, Charles

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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Miller, Henry

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Saint-Pierre, Michel De

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

Garrison, Zina

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Clark, Glenn

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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Changing Times

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There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Russo, Rene

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Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Berlin, Irving

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

Lombardi, Vince

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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.