quotations about attitude
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
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
A kick butt attitude is like a breath of fresh air that will attract opportunities. A sour attitude is like bad breath that can clear a room in a heartbeat, repelling opportunities.
SAM GLENN
A Kick in the Attitude
The first step to developing a positive attitude is to become aware of the true nature of your current attitude. This isn't always as easy as it sounds.
ROGER FRITZ
The Power of a Positive Attitude
The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives.
ROSEMARY ALTEA
interview, Larry King Live, Mar. 15, 2000
Whether your attitude is good or bad, it is what people are going to remember about you.
RENEE EVENSON
Customer Service Training 101
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Cancer Ward
Possessing a great attitude is like having a secret weapon. All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude still sometimes wins.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Today Matters
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL
Man's Search for Meaning
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Culture and Value
Your attitude is either in the way, on the way, or creating a way.
SAM GLENN
A Kick in the Attitude
Your attitude determines how you experience the world.
SANAYA ROMAN
Living with Joy
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Attitude is like chalk dust--it gets on everything you touch.
SAM GLENN
A Kick in the Attitude
Attitude is a decision that we make every day (and oftentimes throughout each day), and choosing to have a good one builds relationships and opens doors like few other habits or behaviors can.
ANDREW MERLE
"Why You Should Choose a Good Attitude", Huffington Post, February 9, 2016
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Today Matters
One's attitude to any issue is determined by his/her belief about that issue. If one's belief towards an issue is unhealthy, then one's attitude toward that issue will be unhealthy. What this means is that the starting point in dealing with the problem of attitude is to deal with the belief system.
SUMBYE KAPENA
Basic Life Skills for Success
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
AMY TAN
The Joy Luck Club
Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The Maxwell Daily Reader
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
EPICTETUS
Discourses
One ship sails east, and another sails west, By the self same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales, That determines the way they go.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"The Winds of Fate"