Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Berlin, Irving

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

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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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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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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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

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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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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Changing Times

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

Pope, Alexander

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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.

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Wooden, John

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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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It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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 else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Feherty, David