Motivational Quotes

Attitude

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Attitude

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

Churchill, Winston

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Karolyi, Bela

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

Andrews, Julie

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

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

Grounds, Vernon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Langbridge, Frederick

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

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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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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Riley, Pat

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

Uhland

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

Eric, Golnik

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Conklin, Robert

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Buscaglia, Leo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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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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Nothing will work unless you do.

Wooden, John

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

Golas, Thaddeus

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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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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

William James