Motivational Quotes

Attitude

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Changing Times

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

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

Eric, Golnik

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

William James

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

10.

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

11.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Garrison, Zina

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

33.

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

Berlin, Irving

34.

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

Patricia Neal

35.

He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

Thurber, James

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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Andrews, Julie

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

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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