Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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.

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Uhland

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

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Berlin, Irving

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

William James

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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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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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn Johnston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Feherty, David

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

Karolyi, Bela

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Armstrong, Louis