Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

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

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

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

James, William

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.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

James, William

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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Andrews, Julie

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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

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thurber, James

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

Patricia Neal

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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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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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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

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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