Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Attitude

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Horne, Lena

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

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 lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

William James

10.

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

Reeve, Christopher

11.

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

Caesar, Julius

12.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Epictetus

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Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Andrews, Julie

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

Karolyi, Bela

23.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Lamb, Charles

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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

25.

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

26.

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

Ross, Ruth

27.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Golas, Thaddeus

28.

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

29.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

30.

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

Grounds, Vernon

31.

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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Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

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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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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

35.

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

37.

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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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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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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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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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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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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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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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Stengel, Casey

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

Billings, Josh

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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