Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Billings, Josh

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Berlin, Irving

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Wooden, John

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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

11.

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

Golas, Thaddeus

12.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Epictetus

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Marshall, George

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Feherty, David

27.

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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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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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

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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

31.

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

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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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

40.

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

Stengel, Casey

41.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Clark, Glenn

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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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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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Changing Times

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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