Motivational Quotes

Attitude

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

- Golas, Thaddeus

Best Quotes about Attitude

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Epictetus

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Mandino, Og

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.

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

Changing Times

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Billings, Josh

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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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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Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

William James

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

Marshall, George

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

Miller, Henry