Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Marshall, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Patricia Neal

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

Douglas, Norman

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

You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grounds, Vernon

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.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Speer, Robert E.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Garrison, Zina

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

16.

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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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

18.

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

Clark, Glenn

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

20.

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

21.

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

26.

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

James, William

28.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Epictetus

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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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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Uhland

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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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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.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Wilson, Mclandburgh

42.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Caesar, Julius

44.

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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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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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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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