Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- William James

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pope, Candice M.

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

Langbridge, Frederick

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Glasgow, Ellen

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Clark, Glenn

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

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Lamb, Charles

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

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Marshall, George

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Karolyi, Bela

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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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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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

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

Wooden, John

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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

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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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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Uhland