Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

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

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Stengel, Casey

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.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Karolyi, Bela

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Ross, Ruth

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Conklin, Robert

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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.

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

Feherty, David

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

James, William

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Miller, Henry

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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Blandi, Tom

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray