Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Miller, Henry

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

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

Churchill, Winston

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Speer, Robert E.

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

Mandino, Og

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Swindoll, Charles

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

21.

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

Marshall, George

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

William James

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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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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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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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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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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

34.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

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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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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Douglas, Norman

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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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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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Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Eric, Golnik

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo