Attitude Quotes




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

-William James



"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



?To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you?re not, pretend you are."

--Muhammad Ali



"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson



I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you.

Zig Ziglar



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



"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."

--Merle Miller



"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." Norman Vincent Peale



"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer



"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost." Robert H. Schuller



"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." Denis Waitley



"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Lou Holtz



"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha



"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." Winston Churchill



"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." Tom Blandi



Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar



"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." Thomas Dewar



"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."

Earl Nightingale



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

William James



"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself." Carolyn Warner



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

Charles Prestwich Scott



Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy



"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. " Charles Swindoll



"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!" Lou Holtz



To respond is positive, to react is negative.

Zig Ziglar



"I am a lucky man." Christopher Reeve



"I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated." Leland Bartlett



"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

Jim Rohn



"Live with passion." Anthony Robbins



"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."Chinese Proverb



"Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other."

Joseph Addison



"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Herm Albright

Motivational Quotes




Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Dr. Robert Schuller



The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

Tommy Lasorda



You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw



There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

Doris Lessing



They can because they think they can.

Virgil



I am the greatest!

Muhammad Ali



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson



Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson



We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle



We are what we think.

Buddha



Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius



Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte



It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain



It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot



We tend to get what we expect.

Norman Vincent Peale



This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau



No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Jackson



The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi



Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.

Henry Ford



Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir



We become what we think about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller



The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

Confucius



Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus



There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare



Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)

Horace/Quintus Hortius Flaccus



No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake



The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.



The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard



Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it

Author Unknown



There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Colin Powell



This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare



Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

Tim Duncan



Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain



Things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin



To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Mahatma Gandhi



Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin



I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein



It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.

Charles Austin Bates



Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish Proverb



I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it

Thomas Jefferson



If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward



Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill



Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein



Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds

Norman Vincent Peale



One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Henry Ford



In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein



Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"

Richard Carlson

Writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.



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

Bob Conklin



The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine



Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill



If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it.

Albert Einstein



Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it.

Christine Frankland



We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!

Winston Churchill



Knowledge itself is power.

Francis Bacon



What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Seneca



None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau



To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Green Hubbard



I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain



Follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell



Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action

David Seabury



Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Latin Proverb



The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt



To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore

Rocky Marciano



When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top

Author Unknown



Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

Marianne Williamson



Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Theodore T. Hunger



The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Loyd Wright



A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Elbert Hubbard



There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley



I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope



The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Henry W. Longfellow



A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Michel de Montaigne



Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein



You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain



The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher



A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon



Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Plutarch



The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

William James



The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol



Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg



A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens



I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain



Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin



A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain



Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Nelson DeMille



Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

Zacharty Bercovitz



I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain



The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Charles Lynch



Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!

Author Unknown



Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison



Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

Emile Coue



If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau



Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson



The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

Taisen Deshimaru



Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable.

Author Unknown



The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill



It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw



Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill



The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere



The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot



The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Dr. Denis Waitley



The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Bruce Lee



The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.

N. H. Moos



Your altitude is determined by your attitude.

Author Unknown



If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

Jay Sidhu



It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M. Bristol



There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein



If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement of Alexandria



Faith will move mountains.

Proverb



Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Camus



Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.

Author Unknown



The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

John Ruskin



The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin



Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch



The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Thomas Huxley



The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower



I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

Helen Keller



It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain



Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner



What you become is more important than what you accomplish.

Author Unknown



Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln



Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved.

Robert H. Lauer



For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier



He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher



A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.

Mary Kay Ash



Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero



Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.

Jill McLemore



We are new every day.

Irene Claremont de Castillego



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson



If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe



The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Confucius



The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Ayn Rand