Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Wooden, John

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Grounds, Vernon

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Wilson, Mclandburgh

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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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

11.

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.

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

Reeve, Christopher

14.

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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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 not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.

Conklin, Robert

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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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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.

19.

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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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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Berlin, Irving

23.

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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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

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

27.

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

Ross, Ruth

28.

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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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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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn Johnston

31.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Golas, Thaddeus

32.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

34.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Garrison, Zina

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Swindoll, Charles

45.

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

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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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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

48.

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

Uhland

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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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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