Motivational Quotes

Attitude

Attitudes are more important than facts.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Attitude

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Douglas, Norman

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Marshall, George

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

Feherty, David

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

Caesar, Julius

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

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

Garrison, Zina

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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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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 may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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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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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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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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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

Holtz, Lou

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Patricia Neal

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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