Quotes About Attitude

  1. Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words Brian Tracy
  2. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
  3. Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic. The Zurich Axioms
  4. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
  5. The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
  6. Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise. Kathleen Turner
  7. Funny is an attitude. Flip Wilson
  8. When you believe you can-you can! Maxwell Maltz
  9. 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
  10. Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more. Cowper
  11. I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. Mike Todd
  12. Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders…Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest. Dale Carnegie
  13. 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
  14. Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. Henry Ford
  15. Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. Walter Dill Scott
  16. It is not the position, but the disposition. J. E. Dinger
  17. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Paul H. Duhn
  18. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. James Keller
  19. Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James
  20. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
  21. People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  22. 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
  23. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James
  24. A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Anonymous
  25. I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated. Leland Bartlett
  26. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Adams Keller
  27. If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. Billy Graham
  28. Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. Charles Prestwich Scott
  29. 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
  30. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright
  31. We are like tea bags – we don’t know our own strength until we’re in hot water. Sister Busche
  32. 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, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, 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. Charles Swindoll
  33. Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz
  34. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Sir Walter Scott
  35. An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind. Dr. Albert Schweitzer
  36. People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
  37. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter
  38. 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. James Russell Miller
  39. Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. General Douglas McArthur
  40. There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. Emmanuel
  41. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. Helen Adams Keller
  42. Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. Charles Prestwich Scott
  43. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille
  44. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James
  45. 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
  46. Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens, I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary, but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream. Helen Adams Keller
  47. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
  48. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
  49. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton
  50. I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. H. Jackson Browne

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