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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Wooden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Swindoll, Charles

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

William James

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

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Conklin, Robert

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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Billings, Josh

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Feherty, David

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

Miller, Henry

20.

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

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

James, William

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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

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

Clark, Glenn

32.

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

33.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

34.

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Lombardi, Vince

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Saint-Pierre, Michel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Reeve, Christopher

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

Golas, Thaddeus