Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Patricia Neal

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Billings, Josh

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

Conklin, Robert

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

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

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

Epictetus

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

Marshall, George

19.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!

Armstrong, Louis

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

Macaulay, J. C.

21.

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

22.

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

27.

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

Thurber, James

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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

Horne, Lena

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

Ross, Ruth

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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

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

Feherty, David

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

Golas, Thaddeus

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Grounds, Vernon

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