Here is a select compilation of famous attitude quotes I find most inspirational and motivating. Read and be inspired by these quotes.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Napolean Hill
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
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!
Sasha Azevedo
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Harry F. Banks
It is your disabled attitude that determines your disability and it is your disability that can or can't close opportunities in life for you.
William Ngwako Maphoto
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William Bennett
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
James Truslow Adams
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde
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
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
Annette Goodheart
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
Author Unknown
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
Lance Armstrong
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
Annie Gottlier
The control center of your life is your attitude.
Author Unknown
So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
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
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
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
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Wilfred Peterson
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
The control center of your life is your attitude.
Author Unknown
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Arthur Ashe
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Victor E. Frankl
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
Dr. Robert Anthony
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A.Froude
Your attitudes and the choices you make today will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely.
Author Unknown
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katherine Hepburn
Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.
Funmi Wale-Adegbite
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Earl Nightingale
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. Cummings
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Publius Terentius Afer
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
Cavett Robert
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Jim Rohn
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
Emmet Fox
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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.
Victor Frankl
His mother asked him why he said that when the day was anything but beautiful. Mother, said he, with rare wisdom, never judge a day by its weather.
Author Unknown
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
Edwin H. Friedman
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Carl Rogers
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
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
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Willis Whitney
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.
Confucious
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.
Harold S. Geneen
Attitudes are more important than facts.
Karl A. Menninger
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Harry F.Banks
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Denis Waitley
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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
The way you see them is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is the way they often become.
Zig Ziglar
Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Swami Sivananda
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
James Truslow Adams
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
