Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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.

Best Quotes about Attitude

You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Wooden, John

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

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 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

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

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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

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Truman, Harry S

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Eric, Golnik

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

William James

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

Thurber, James

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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Desai, Morarji

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Patricia Neal

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

Holtz, Lou

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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Marshall, George

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.