Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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.

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Reeve, Christopher

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Changing Times

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

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

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

William James

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Karolyi, Bela

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

Wooden, John

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

13.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

James, William

16.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

17.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

18.

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

19.

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

20.

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

21.

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

Garrison, Zina

22.

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

Caesar, Julius

23.

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.

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

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

26.

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

Feherty, David

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Ross, Ruth

30.

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.

31.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

32.

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

33.

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

Marshall, George

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

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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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

37.

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

Berlin, Irving

38.

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

Langbridge, Frederick

39.

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

Armstrong, Louis

40.

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

41.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

James, William

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

47.

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

Patricia Neal

48.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

49.

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

Hugo, Victor

50.

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