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

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.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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.

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

William James

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

Langbridge, Frederick

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Uhland

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

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

10.

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

Reeve, Christopher

11.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

12.

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

Pope, Candice M.

13.

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

Miller, Henry

14.

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Stengel, Casey

20.

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

Berlin, Irving

21.

He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

Thurber, James

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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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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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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

25.

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

Eric, Golnik

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

Golas, Thaddeus

27.

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

Lombardi, Vince

28.

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

Patricia Neal

29.

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

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Marshall, George

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Mandino, Og