Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Attitude

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

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

Feherty, David

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Patricia Neal

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

Mandino, Og

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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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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Andrews, Julie

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Russo, Rene

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Reeve, Christopher

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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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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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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