Quotes about attitude

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Julie Andrews

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

— Louis Armstrong

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.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

— William John Bennett

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.

— Timothy Bentley

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

— Irving Berlin

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

— Josh Billings

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

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

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

— Dr. Jerome Brunner

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.

— Pearl S. Buck

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.

— Leo Buscaglia

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

— Eric Butterworth

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Changing Times

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

— Winston Churchill

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

— Glenn Clark

You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

— Susanna Clark

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

— Robert Conklin

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

— Morarji Desai

It is not the position, but the disposition.

— J. E. Dinger

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

— Norman Douglas

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Epictetus

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

— Golnik Eric

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

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

— Chris Evert

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

— David Feherty

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

— Zina Garrison

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Thaddeus Golas

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

— Vernon Grounds

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.

— Henry S. Haskins

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

— Raymond Holliwell

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

— Lou Holtz

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

— Lou Holtz

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

— Lena Horne

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— William James

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

— William James

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

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.

— Dupree Jordan

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

— Bela Karolyi

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

— Helen Keller

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Frederick Langbridge

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

— Vince Lombardi

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

— J. C. Macaulay

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

— Chretien Malesherbes

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.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Og Mandino

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

— Louis L. Mann

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

— George Marshall

Attitudes are more important than facts.

— Karl A. Menninger

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

— Henry Miller

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.

— John Homer Miller

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

— John R. Miller

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

— Earl Nightingale

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

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

— Anais Nin

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think 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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Candice M. Pope

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

— Christopher Reeve

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

— Pat Riley

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.

— Pat Riley

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.

— James H. Robinson

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

— Sugar Ray Robinson

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.

— Jim Rohn

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

— Jim Rohn

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

— Ruth Ross

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.

— Rene Russo

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

— Michel De Saint-Pierre

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

— Col. Harland Sanders

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

— Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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.

— E. F. Schumacher

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

— Charles Prestwich Scott

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

— Hans Selye

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

— Robert E. Speer

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

— Casey Stengel

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.

— W. Clement Stone

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

— Charles Swindoll

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

— Charles Swindoll

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.

— Charles Swindoll

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

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.

— Charles Swindoll

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.

— Charles Swindoll

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

— Amy Tan

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

— William M. Thackeray

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

— James Thurber

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

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.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Harry S Truman

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.

— Ted Turner

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

— Uhland

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.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown