Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pope, Candice M.

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

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.

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

Golas, Thaddeus

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Stone, W. Clement

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

11.

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

Patricia Neal

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Billings, Josh

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

Uhland

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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.

21.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Wooden, John

27.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Marshall, George

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Reeve, Christopher

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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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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Holtz, Lou

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

William James