Attitude Quotes

Attitude quotes...quotes on attitude to remind you that your personal development starts with the one thing you do have control over in life - your attitude.

Attitude Quotes To Help You Give Yourself a Brighter Day

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

--Carlos Castaneda

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

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

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

--M. Scott Peck

You really can change the world if you care enough.

--Marian Wright Edelman

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

--Martha Washington

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

--Michael Korda

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

--Richard Bach

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

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

--William James

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

--Cavett Robert

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

--Winston Churchill

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

--Bill Meyer

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.

--Annette Goodheart

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

--Abraham Lincoln

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

--Epictetus

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

--Arthur Rubinstein

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

--Marcus Antonius

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

--Alice Walker

I hope these quotes about attitude helped inspire you to have a brighter day. ~Adam

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