Motivational Quotes

Attitude

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Andrews, Julie

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

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

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Marshall, George

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

Eric, Golnik

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

Uhland

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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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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.

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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Pope, Candice M.

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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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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

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John