Attitude
- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.--Lou Holtz
- Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.--Sue Patton Thoele
- All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.--Henry Fuseli
- Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.--Max L. Forman
- Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.--Robert H. Schuller
- 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
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.--Winston S. Churchill
- Attitude is the mind's paintbrush, it can color any situation.--Unknown
- The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.--Alan Watts
- Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?--Jeffrey Gitomer (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 138)
- 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.--Charles R. Swindoll
- Attitudes are contagious is yours worth catching?--Anonymous
- Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.--Paul Myer (in Developing the Leader Within You by Maxwell)
- Be as an cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and the universe retreats from you.--Zen Proverb
- Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you: and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.--Emmet Fox
- Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.--Rudyand Kipling
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.--Jane Addams
- A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.--William Arthur Ward
- Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.--Max Lucade
- Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would be different.--Katherine Mansfield
- The ... difference is that of attitude. But that difference determines who gets ideas and who does not. An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.--Barbara J. Winter (Making a Living with a Job)
- Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.--Jim Rohn
- Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.--Fulton J. Sheen
- Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.--Bill Meyer
- Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.--Viktor Frankl
- Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.--Swedish proverb
- For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.--Kahlil Gibran
- Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.--Jim Rohn
- God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.--Anna Delaney Peale
- 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
- The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.--Orston Swett Marden
- Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.--Virgil
- A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.--Hugh Downs
- Hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.--Zig Ziglar
- High expectations are the key to everything.--Sam Walton
- 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
- How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.--Parks Cousins
- How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.--David Joseph Schwartz
- I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.--Charles Fletcher Lummis
- 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 your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.--Carolyn Warner
- I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.--Wayne Dyer, American
- I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.--Judith M. Knowlton
- I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.--Dalai Lama
- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.--Booker T. Washington
- I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.--Elbert Hubbard
- 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
- If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.--Marie Osmond
- In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.--Dale Turner
- In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.--Harold S. Kushner
- An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.--G. K. Chesterton
- If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. Nor one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.--Benjamin Disraeli
- Is it any coincidence then that the most incredibly successful people have the most confident and positive attitudes? Many people think that positive attitude is a by-product of having achieved wealth and success. In my experience I have found that this attitude was more often the reason for and not the result of success.--Mark A. Crouch (Bouncing Off Paper Walls)
- It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.--Frederick W. Robertson
- It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which more than anything else will affect its successful outcome.--William James
- It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.--Robert H. Schuller
- It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation.--Robert Conklin
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.--Helen Keller
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.--Marcus Aurelius
- Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.--Ernest Holmes
- The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends on how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong.--L.G. Elliott
- The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.--Voltaire
- A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.--Ken Keyes, Jr.
- 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 Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.--Thomas Carlyle
- Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.--Livy
- Misanthropes need people; without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.--Polly Whitney
- Never let yesterday use up too much of today.--Will Rogers
- Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.--Jesse Jackson
- No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.--Ellen Glasgow
- No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Sept. 30, 2003)
- Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.-- Marsha Petrie Sue (The CEO of You)
- 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
- Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.--Ellen Glasgow
- Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.--David Gerrold
- One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.--Jack Penn
- The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.--John Russell Lynes Jr.
- Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.--Earl Nightingale
- Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.--Denis Waitley
- People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.--John C. Maxwell
- People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.--Rita Moreno
- Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.--Earl Nightingale
- Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
- People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.--Bob Losure (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
- People only see what they are prepared to see.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
- People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.--Charles Swindoll
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.--Herm Albright
- Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.--Vernon Howard
- The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.--Barbara Hetcher
- The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day 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.--Charles Swindoll
- Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.--Richard Bach
- There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.--W. Clement Stone
- There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.--Anonymous
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.--John Wooden
- This country wasn't built on cynicism. It was built on a can-do attitude. One shouldn't complain about the way things are unless one is willing to try to make a difference.--Frankie Sue Del Papa
- To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.--Muhammad Ali
- To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.--Denis Waitley
- To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.--Anonymous Chicago teacher
- Unfortunate events, though potentially a source for anger and despair, have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on our response.--The Dalai Lama
- The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.--Charles Fillmore
- We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.--Laura Schlessinger
- We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can … our attitude.--John Maxwell (Developing the Leader Within You)
- We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.--Joseph Fort Newton
- We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.--John Maxwell (Developing the Leader Within You)
- We go on fancying that each person is thinking of us, but they are not; they are like the rest of us--they are thinking of themselves.--Charles Reade
- What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.--Thaddeus Golas
- Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!--David Starr Jordan
- When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"--Sydney J. Harris
- When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.--Joseph Campbell
- When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.--Charles R. Swindoll (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)
- 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.--William James
- Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.--Henry Ford
- A willing heart adds feather to the heel.--Joanna Baillie (De Montfort)
- With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish--Alexander the Great
- 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
- Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.--Colleen C. Barrett
- The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.--Gerald Jampolsky
- The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.--William Makepeace Thackeray
- The world is my cathedral, its inhabitants my fellow parishioners.--Michael Rawls
- Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.--Corrie Ten Boom
- You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.--Tom Wilson (in Ziggy)
- You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.--Ben Stein
- You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.--Brian Tracy
- You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- You don't have to want to, you just have to do it.--Andrew Law
- 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 & Richard Leigh
- You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.--Darwin P. Kingsley
- You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.--Jack Youngblood
- Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- 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
- You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.--Gordie Howe
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