Motivational Quotes

Attitude

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

- Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Conklin, Robert

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Epictetus

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

Changing Times

10.

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Mandino, Og

11.

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

Armstrong, Louis

12.

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

Pope, Candice M.

13.

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

Golas, Thaddeus

14.

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

15.

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

Langbridge, Frederick

16.

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

17.

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

Karolyi, Bela

18.

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'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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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

21.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

22.

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

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

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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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

27.

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

Truman, Harry S

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

31.

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.

32.

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

Grounds, Vernon

33.

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

Ross, Ruth

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Garrison, Zina

37.

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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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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

42.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Miller, Henry

43.

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

Lombardi, Vince

44.

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

Herm Albright

45.

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

46.

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

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

49.

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