Motivational Quotes

Attitude

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

- Changing Times

Best Quotes about Attitude

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.

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

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Marshall, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

James, William

13.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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 in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

17.

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

Ross, Ruth

18.

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

Conklin, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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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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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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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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

27.

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

28.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

29.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

30.

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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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.

32.

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

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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

40.

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

41.

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

James, William

42.

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

Clark, Glenn

43.

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

Lombardi, Vince

44.

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

William James

46.

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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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Douglas, Norman

48.

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

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Langbridge, Frederick