Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Miller, Henry

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

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

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Patricia Neal

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

Karolyi, Bela

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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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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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

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

Speer, Robert E.

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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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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 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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Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

20.

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

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Lombardi, Vince

24.

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

26.

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

Grounds, Vernon

27.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Horne, Lena

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

42.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Eric, Golnik

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ziglar, Zig