Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Uhland

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

Eric, Golnik

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Miller, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

Clark, Susanna

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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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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.

33.

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

Feherty, David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

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

Horne, Lena

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Patricia Neal

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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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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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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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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.