Motivational Quotes

Attitude

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!

- Armstrong, Louis

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

La Fontaine, Jean De

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Schumacher, E. F.

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Rohn, Jim

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

Reeve, Christopher

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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Jordan, Dupree

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Whitney, Willis

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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

James, William

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

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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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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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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!

Armstrong, Louis

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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.

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

William James

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

James, William

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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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You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

Marshall, George

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Karolyi, Bela

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

Feherty, David

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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

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There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.

Conklin, Robert

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

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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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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

Macaulay, J. C.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Grounds, Vernon

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You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

Clark, Susanna