Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

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

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Andrews, Julie

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

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.

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

William James

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Miller, Henry

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

Grounds, Vernon

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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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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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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Evert, Chris

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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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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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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Wooden, John

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horne, Lena

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

Macaulay, J. C.