Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Attitude

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Douglas, Norman

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

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

Stengel, Casey

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

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

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

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

Garrison, Zina

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Lynn Johnston

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Speer, Robert E.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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.

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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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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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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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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Horne, Lena

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

Patricia Neal

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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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Feherty, David

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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

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

James, William