Attitude Quotes

"You cannot always control circumstances, but you can control your thoughts." Charles Popplestown

"I can alter my life by altering the attitude of my mind." Unknown

"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." William J. Bennett

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." Winston Churchill

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right." Henry Ford

“I praise loudly. I blame softly.” Catherine the Great

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Give trust, and you’ll get it double in return.” Kees Kamies

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.” John Wesley

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale Carnegie

“The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” William James

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The secret of many a man’s success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them.” J.G. Holland

“Look to be treated by other as you have treated others.” Publius Syrus

“Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others.” J. Petit Senn

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” Ralph Marston

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” Og Mandino

“Flatter me and I may not believe you. Criticize me and I may not like you. Ignore me and I may not forgive you. Encourage me and I may not forget you.” William Arthur

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

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” Maya Angelou

“Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst.” Max Gunther

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” William James

“As long as you can find someone else to blame for anything you are doing, you cannot be held accountable or responsible for your growth or the lack of it.” Sun Bear

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Charles Dickens

"Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” Mother Teresa

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Castaneda

"Remember, you create your own reality by the choices you make in the moment. Today, go for more moments of creating 'heaven on earth.' It's your choice. Efficient decisions from the heart will take you there." Doc Childre

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Carl W. Buechner

“It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the Great Man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” Martha Washington

“If each of us sweeps in front of our own steps, the whole world would be clean.” Goethe

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller

“The remarkable thing is we have 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...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." Charles Swindoll

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them--the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian novelist

“Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart." Joni Mitchell

“He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.” George Herbert

“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.” Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Jung

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden." Goethe

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Out of clutter, find Simplicity.  From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” Cicero   

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." Miles Davis, jazz great (1926 - 1991)

 “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7