Quotes on Attitude

“We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. 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… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our ATTITUDES.”
~ Chuck Swindol, author of "Attitude"

"It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important."
~Zig Ziglar

"Stay committed to your decisions; but stay flexible in your approach."
~ Tony Robbins

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

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
~ Aristotle

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
-- Milton Berle, 1908-, Actor, Entertainer

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."
– Brian Tracy excerpts from The Treasury of Quotes

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." — William James (1842 - 1910)

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
~ Samuel Johnson

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
~ John Wooden

"If we could first know where we are, and whether we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
~ Confucius, BC 551-479, Chinese Teacher, Philosopher

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
~ Oscar Wilde, playwright

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." -- Benjamin Franklin.

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
~ George Washington Carver, chemist and educator

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
~ Lee Iacocca

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."
~ Don Wilder, business executive

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
~ Robert H. Schuller, 1926, American Minister, Author, Social Leader

"There are certain words I don't like to use. (For example,)'Try' implies there's a chance you might not do it. And if you say 'hope,' it implies there's a chance it might not happen."
~ Elaine Minacs, 2001 Sales Hall of Fame Inductee

“Enthusiasm is self-confidence in action.”
~ Franklin Reid

"The causes of mistakes are ‘I didn’t know,’ ‘I didn’t think’ and ‘I didn’t care.’”
~ Henry H. Buckley

"You can buy a person’s time; you can buy his physical presence in a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm. You cannot buy initiative. You cannot buy devotion of hearts, minds and souls. You have to earn those things."
~ Clarence Francis

“The human mind is like an umbrella – it functions best when open.”
~ Walter Adolf Gropius