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

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Pope, Candice M.

14.

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

15.

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

William James

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Marshall, George

18.

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

Karolyi, Bela

19.

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

Berlin, Irving

20.

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

21.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Caesar, Julius

22.

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

Grounds, Vernon

23.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

24.

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

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Horne, Lena

27.

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

Feherty, David

28.

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

29.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

30.

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

31.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Wilson, Mclandburgh

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Herm Albright

35.

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

36.

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

Langbridge, Frederick

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Stengel, Casey

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

50.

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