Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Speer, Robert E.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

James, William

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Herm Albright

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.

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Marshall, George

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

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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Eric, Golnik

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Grounds, Vernon

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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Buscaglia, Leo

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Karolyi, Bela

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

Wooden, John

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Truman, Harry S