Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

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

Wilson, Mclandburgh

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Epictetus

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

Macaulay, J. C.

11.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Uhland

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

William James

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

Patricia Neal

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marshall, George

28.

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

30.

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

Thurber, James

31.

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

Ross, Ruth

32.

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

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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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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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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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

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

Feherty, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Andrews, Julie

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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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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 will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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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.