Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Holtz, Lou

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

William James

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

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Eric, Golnik

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Stengel, Casey

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Schumacher, E. F.

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Uhland

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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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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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Don't be against things so much as for things.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Pope, Candice M.

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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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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Golas, Thaddeus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Billings, Josh