Attitude Quotes

The most courageous decision you make each day is the decision to be in a good mood.

Voltaire

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.

A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.

I saw that we should encourage a cheerful, hopeful, peaceful frame of mind, for our health depends upon us doing this.

Ellen G White

If you choose to find the positive in virtually every situation, you will be blessed.

My personal trials have taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realised that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force.

Martin Luther King

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

James Clear

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Colossians 3:2

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.

Jameson Fran

Let us look at the light behind the cloud.

Ellen G White

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Bruce Lee

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Brain Tracy

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

Helen Keller

It is not the position, but the disposition.

J E Dinger

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

Lee Mildon

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

Walter Dill Scott

God never sends depression. It is one of Satan’s biggest weapons. If he can’t hurt you out, wear you out, tire you out, he will try to depress you out.

C A Murray

The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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 more you look forward to heaven, the less you’ll desire on earth.

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

Lou Holtz

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

Brain Tracy

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

If you can’t see the bright side, polish the dull side.

It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have a habit of looking on the bright side of things.

Samuel Johnson

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

William James

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

Colette

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

Corrie ten Boom

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Don’t look horizontally, look vertically.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S Monson

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

I’m never down…just up…or getting up

John Maxwell

God will never send you a message of discouragement.

There’s nothing like depression for finding a piece of pepper in the pudding.

Les Murray

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Boethius

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S Monson

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Robert Brault

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

Robert Brault

Fear less, hope more.

Eat less, chew more.

Whine less, breathe more.

Talk less, say more.

Love more, and all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

Annie Gottlier

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

Epictetus

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

William Arthur Ward

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 is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

Francesca Reigler

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

Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.

Thoreau

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

William James

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

Dennis S Brown

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William J Bennett

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

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

Art Linkletter

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J D’Angelo

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

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

William James

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

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

Anais Nin

In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.

Spencer Johnson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

Never be a prisoner of your past, it was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Stress doesn’t have to happen to you. Take control of stress before it takes control of you.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

Bill Nye

I thought, how many new lives can we have? Then I thought, as many as we like.

Judi Dench

No matter where you find yourself, you can always brighten someone’s day if you just bloom where you are planted.

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

Some things are better off ignored than attacked. Attention is the oxygen of conflict. When you fight a problem, you breathe life into it. When you starve a problem of your attention, you suffocate it. In a surprising number of cases, the way to solve a problem is to ignore it.

James Clear

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

Anne Frank

When you climb to the top of the obstacle that is blocking your view, you are able to look at your situation from a different perspective.

Lucy MacDonald

Everything is okay in the end - if it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced.

Hebrew Proverb

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making nests in your hair

Chinese Proverb

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Don’t think about the problem, think about the solution.

Stop concentrating on what’s wrong and concentrate on what’s strong.

Shahroo Izadi

It’s better to cheerfully endure inconvenience than to part with peace and contentment.

Ellen G White

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Abraham Lincoln

If you only focus on the problem, you might miss the easy solution.

So what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

Rainbow Rowell

The heaviest burdens we carry are the thoughts in our head.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O McKay

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent Gyorgy

He who seeks beauty will find it.

Bill Cunningham