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Skeptical, cynical attitudes can actually cut us off from so many interesting questions, and from reality itself.

- Robert Greene Thoughts

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.     

- Kahlil Gibran

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 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

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.    

- Irving Berlin

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people 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 R. Swindoll

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

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

- Wilferd Peterson

A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.     

- Eva Chen

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.    

 - Allen Klein

I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don’t need a lot of talent.

- Bear Bryant

Attitude Quotes List

Attitude determines the altitude of life. 

-  by Edwin Louis Cole

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

- Edwin Louis Cole Download or Share

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one. 

-  by Wayne Dyer

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.

- Wayne Dyer Download or Share

Attitudes are more important than facts. 

-  by George MacDonald

Attitudes are more important than facts.

- Attitude Quotes by George MacDonald Download or Share

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. 

- Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- A Quotation From Winston Churchill

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought. 

- John C. Maxwell

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

- John C. Maxwell

Attitude will always define who we are in life. 

- Mark A. Brennan

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

- Mark A. Brennan Quotation

We lost because we told ourselves we lost. 

- Leo Tolstoy

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

- Leo Tolstoy

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. 

- Scott Hamilton

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton

Every day brings new choices. 

- Martha Beck

Every day brings new choices.

- Martha Beck

If you think you can’t, you’re right. 

- Carol Bartz

If you think you can’t, you’re right.

- Carol Bartz Quotation

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

- Ralph Marston

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

I don’t get lucky. I make my own luck.

- Harvey Specter

Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.

- Mark A. Cooper

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

- Brene Brown

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill 

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

- Bill Walsh

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

- Ella Williams

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

- Norman Vincent Peale

I don’t care what people think. People are stupid.

- Charles Barkley

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

- William James

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

- Henry Ford

To fly, we have to have resistance.

- Maya Lin

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

- Colin Powell

People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pessimism never won any battle.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

- William Bennett

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

- Duke Ellington

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

- Earl Nightingale

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

- Arthur Ashe

One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.

- Viktor E. Frankl

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

- Attitude Quotes by Zig Ziglar

If we can develop a truly humble attitude, we can change the world.

- Pope Francis

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

- Malala Yousafzai

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

-  Albert Einstein

I will not take “but” for an answer.

- Langston Hughes

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

- Samuel Johnson

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

- Tony Robbins

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

- Pat Riley

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

- Payne Stewart

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

- Earl Nightingale

A ship is always safe at shore, but that’s not what it’s built for.

- Albert Einstein

If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.

- Bear Bryant

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

- Walter Scott

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want.

- Oprah Winfrey

You must be the change you want to see in the world. 

- Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

- William Shakespeare

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

- A. Godin

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

- Joyce Meyer

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

- John Burroughs

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

- Nora Ephron

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

- Helen Keller

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

- Arthur Rubinstein

Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

- Robert Greene

Better to be emotionally intelligent than intellectually intelligent.

- Neil Strauss

Responsibility is the great developer of men.

- Mary Parker Follett

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

- James Allen

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

- Unknown

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.     

- Zig Ziglar

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. 

- Bruce Lee

Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

- Napoleon Hill

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

- Lao Tzu

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

- Lucille Clifton

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Epictetus

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

- Mark Twain

Your problem isn’t the problem, it’s your attitude about the problem.

- Ann Brashares

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

- Susan J. Bissonette

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

- Anne Frank

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

- Ken Keyes Jr.

I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.

- Charlie Brown 

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

- Scipio Africanus

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Hans Selye

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

- Guy Finley

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

- Voltaire

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win.

- Charles Spurgeon

You really can change the world if you care enough.

- Marian Wright Edelman

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

- Abraham Lincoln

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance.

- Robert Greene

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

- Stephen Covey

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

- Carol Burnett

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

- Voltaire

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

- Harvey Specter

What others think of me is none of my business.

- Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

- John C. Maxwell

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

- William Makepeace

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

- Jim Rohn

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

- Charles R. Swindoll

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it.

- Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

- Henry Ford

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

- John C. Maxwell

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

- Brian Tracy

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

- John C. Maxwell 

When you’re backed against the wall, break the goddamn thing down.

- Harvey Specter

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

- Henry Rollins

The weak make others feel inferior. The strong make others feel equal.

- Maxime Lagace

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

- Tom Stoppard

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty.

- Roland Tiangco

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

- Bruce Lee

Self-confidence is an attitude and attitudes are more important than facts.

- Brian Tracy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

- Patricia Neal

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

- Thomas Jefferson

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

- Winnie The Pooh

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

- Zig Ziglar

You are not what happened to you, you are what you choose to become.

- Unknown

Attitude Sayings in English

It is good people who make good places.

- Positive Attitude Quotes by Anna Sewell

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Attitude Quote by Oscar Wilde

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

- Attitude Quote by Richard Bach

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. 

- Attitude Quote by Charles R Swindoll

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

- Famous attitude quotes by Dalai Lama

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

- Attitude Sayings by William James

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

- Attitude Sayings by Elbert Hubbard

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

- Attitude Quotes in English Katharine Hepburn

The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.

William J. Johnston

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

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

Herm Albright

A strong positive mental altitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.

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The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.

Dennis S. Brown

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure. 

John C. Maxwell

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

William James

Be a girl with a mind, a woman with attitude, and a lady with class.

- Unknown

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

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Short Attitude Quotes in English

Do the act and the attitude follows.

Noah Kagan Download or Share

Attitude is altitude.

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Every wall is a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Download or Share

Only you can control your future.

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You become what you think about.

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Attitude Quotation List

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.

- Oscar Wilde

Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Elliot

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

- Earl Nightingale

Do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, not because you want something in return.

- Unknown

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

- Willie Nelson

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

- Ursula Le Guin

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

- Demosthenes

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- E. F. Schumacher

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

- Eckhart Tolle

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

- Marilyn Monroe

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.

- Thomas Jefferson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.     

- Maya Angelou

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

- Mother Teresa

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails. H.

- Jackson Brown Jr

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

- Elbert Hubbard

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

- Benjamin Disraeli

You can’t always have a good day. But you can always face a bad day with a good attitude.

- Unknown

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

- James A. Froude

Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life.

- Gerald Jampolsky

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don't change it, you'll never go anywhere.     

- unknown

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

- Michael Jordan

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

- Orison Swett Marden

You’re lucky if you found a person who never gets tired of understanding your nonsense attitude.

- Unknown

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do. 

- Buddha

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

- Tony Robbins

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

- Mary Robinson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

- Oprah Winfrey

Skeptical, cynical attitudes can actually cut us off from so many interesting questions, and from reality itself.

- Robert Greene *

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining  about.

- Lyn Johnston

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.

- Leon Brown

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.  

- Joel Osteen

Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.

- Brian Tracy

Your people are a mirror of your attitude. If you have a poor attitude, you can’t expect your people to be upbeat.

- John C. Maxwell

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

 - Joan Lunden

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

- William James

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap. 

- Conrad Dobler

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

- William James

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

- Joel Osteen

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

- Napoleon Hill

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means “first Attempt In Learning”
– End is not the end, if fact E.N.D. means “Effort Never Dies”
– If you get No as an answer, remember N.O. means “Next Opportunity”.
So Let’s be positive.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

- Leo Tolstoy

It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.

- Pema Chodron

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

- Samuel Richardson

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston S. Churchill

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Og Mandino

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

- Mae Jemison

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

- Zig Ziglar

I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

- Mike Todd

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.

- Robert Foster Bennett

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.

- Denis Waitley

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.     

- David J. Schwartz

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

- Wayne Dyer

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities.

- Jack Ma

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Lou Holtz

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

Attitude Thoughts in English

People who retain their childish attitudes will rarely be able to hold on to the success they may achieve through their talent.

- Attitude Quote by Robert Greene

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

- Muhammad Ali

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

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

- Dave Thomas

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.     

- John C. Maxwell

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

- Earl Nightingale

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Lou Holtz

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot.

- Confucius

A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.   

- Subodh Gupta

A bad attitude can literally block love, blessings, and destiny from finding you. Don't be the reason you don't succeed.     

- Mandy Hale

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.     

- Earl Nightingale *

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

- Mahatma Gandhi

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

- Dale Carnegie

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

- Elie Wiesel

The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

- Denis Waitley

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

- Zig Ziglar

With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.

- W. Clement Stone

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

- Colin Powell

A 'positive attitude' is definitely one of the keys to success. My definition of a positive attitude is a simple one: Looking for the good in all circumstances. 

- Catherine Pulsifer

You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond. 

- Ken Blanchard

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

- Lisa Alther Quotes

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

- Samuel Johnson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

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.

- W. C. Fields

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.

- Irving Berlin

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

- Francis of Assisi

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

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. 

- Dalai Lama

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

Eccentricity is not, as dull people  would have us believe, a form of madness.  It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

- Edith sitwell Quotes

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.     

- Dalai Lama

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

- William James

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.   

-  J. Sidlow Baxter

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.  

-  Victor Frankl

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

- Mahatma Gandhi

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

- Eric Hoffer

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

- Barbara Fredrickson

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 Quotes