Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Patricia Neal

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Clark, Glenn

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Wilson, Mclandburgh

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

Rohn, Jim

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

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Hubbard, Elbert

Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

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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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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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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Swindoll, Charles

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

18.

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Billings, Josh

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

Marshall, George

23.

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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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

25.

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

Thurber, James

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Churchill, Winston

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Wooden, John

31.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

Pope, Candice M.

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

William James

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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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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.