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

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Caesar, Julius

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brunner, Dr. Jerome

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.

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

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

Lynn Johnston

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

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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

Armstrong, Louis

11.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Pope, Candice M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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

29.

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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You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Reeve, Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marshall, George

34.

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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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Eric, Golnik

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horne, Lena

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

Conklin, Robert

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

William James

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

Miller, Henry