Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

William James

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

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

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

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

Marshall, George

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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Ziglar, Zig

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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Pope, Candice M.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

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

Reeve, Christopher

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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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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Don't be against things so much as for things.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Eric, Golnik

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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Holtz, Lou

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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Conklin, Robert

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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Herm Albright

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

Karolyi, Bela

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

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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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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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We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Feherty, David

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

Glasgow, Ellen