Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Thurber, James

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

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

William James

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.

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

10.

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

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Bentley, Timothy

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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Conklin, Robert

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

29.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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

32.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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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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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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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.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Douglas, Norman

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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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