Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

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

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

Marshall, George

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

William James

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Uhland

18.

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

Reeve, Christopher

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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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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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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

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

24.

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

25.

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

Conklin, Robert

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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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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Rohn, Jim

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

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

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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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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.

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Garrison, Zina

43.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Horne, Lena

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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.