Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Patricia Neal

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

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Pope, Candice M.

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

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

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Pope, Alexander

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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Stengel, Casey

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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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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

28.

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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Swindoll, Charles

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Marshall, George

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

33.

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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

40.

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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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Billings, Josh

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

William James