Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Clark, Glenn

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

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

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

Mandino, Og

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

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

14.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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

17.

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

Miller, Henry

18.

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

19.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Changing Times

20.

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

William James

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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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

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

26.

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

Stengel, Casey

27.

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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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Holtz, Lou

30.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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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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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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Wooden, John

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

Reeve, Christopher

38.

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

Andrews, Julie

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

Uhland

42.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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