Motivational Quotes

Attitude

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Miller, Henry

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

Mandino, Og

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

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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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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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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.

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

William James

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Armstrong, Louis

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Eric, Golnik

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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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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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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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Epictetus

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Reeve, Christopher

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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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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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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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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.