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

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

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

Berlin, Irving

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Patricia Neal

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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

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

William James

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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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.

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

Caesar, Julius

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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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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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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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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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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I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Reeve, Christopher

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Ziglar, Zig

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Uhland

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

Stengel, Casey

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