Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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.

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Ross, Ruth

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.

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.

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

James, William

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Wooden, John

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

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Speer, Robert E.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Epictetus

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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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

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

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Patricia Neal

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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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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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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