Motivational Quotes

Attitude

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Miller, Henry

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Horne, Lena

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

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

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

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.

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

Patricia Neal

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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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Mandino, Og

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Reeve, Christopher

19.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Billings, Josh

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

William James

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

Karolyi, Bela

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

James, William

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

Epictetus

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

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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

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

39.

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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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Ward, C. M.

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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

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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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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Marshall, George

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Thurber, James

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