Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

William James

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Patricia Neal

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

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

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Thurber, James

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Uhland

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

24.

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

Andrews, Julie

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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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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

47.

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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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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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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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