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Get Inspired to Master Success Factor 3: Attitude

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.  

- William John Bennett  

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  

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.  

- Irving Berlin  

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.  

- Tom Blandi  

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.  

- H Jackson Brown Junior  

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.  

- Doctor Jerome Brunner  

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.  

- Pearl S Buck  

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.  

- Leo Buscaglia  

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.  

- Eric Butterworth  

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.  

- Julius Caesar  

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.  

- Glenn Clark  

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.  

- Susanna Clark  

It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.  

- Robert Conklin  

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.  

- Morarji Desai  

It is not the position, but the disposition.  

- J E Dinger  

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.  

- Epictetus  

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.  

- Golnik Eric  

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.  

- Euripides  

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.  

- Chris Evert  

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.  

- David Feherty  

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.  

- Zina Garrison  

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.  

- Ellen Glasgow  

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.  

- Thaddeus Golas  

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.  

- Raymond Holliwell  

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

- Lou Holtz  

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.  

- Lou Holtz  

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.  

- Lena Horne  

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.  

- Victor Hugo  

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

- William James  

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.  

- William James  

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  

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

- Helen Keller  

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.  

- Frederick Langbridge  

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.  

- Vince Lombardi  

Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.  

- J C Macaulay  

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.  

- Chretien Malesherbes  

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.  

- Maxwell Maltz  

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.  

- Og Mandino  

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.  

- Louis L Mann  

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.  

- George Marshall  

Attitudes are more important than facts.  

- Karl A Menninger  

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.  

- John Homer Miller  

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.  

- John R Miller  

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.  

- Earl Nightingale  

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.  

- Earl Nightingale  

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.  

- Anais Nin  

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.  

- Norman Vincent Peale  

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.  

- Candice M Pope  

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.  

- Christopher Reeve  

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.  

- Pat Riley  

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.  

- Pat Riley  

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.  

- Sugar Ray Robinson  

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.  

- Jim Rohn  

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.  

- Rene Russo  

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?  

- Michel De Saint-Pierre  

Don't be against things so much as for things.  

- Colonel Harland Sanders  

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.  

- Doctor Laura Schlessinger  

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.  

- Charles Prestwich Scott  

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.  

- Hans Selye  

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.  

- W Clement Stone  

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.  

- Charles Swindoll  

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.  

- Charles Swindoll  

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  

- Charles Swindoll  

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  

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.  

- Charles Swindoll  

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.  

- Amy Tan  

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.  

- William M Thackeray  

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.  

- Count Leo Tolstoy  

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.  

- Brian Tracy  

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.  

- Ted Turner  

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.  

- Source Unknown  

Your attitude determines your altitude.  

- Source Unknown  

Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.  

- Source Unknown  

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.  

- Source Unknown  

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.  

- Source Unknown  

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.  

- Source Unknown  

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  

- Source Unknown  

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.  

- Source Unknown  

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.  

- Source Unknown  

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.  

- Source Unknown  

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  

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.  

- C M Ward  

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  

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  

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.  

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox  

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!  

- Mclandburgh Wilson  

Nothing will work unless you do.  

- John Wooden  

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

- John Wooden  

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.  

- Hans Selye  

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.  

- W Clement Stone  

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.  

- Charles Swindoll  

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.  

- Charles Swindoll  

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  

- Charles Swindoll  

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  

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.  

- Charles Swindoll  

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.  

- Amy Tan  

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.  

- William M Thackeray  

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.  

- Count Leo Tolstoy  

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.  

- Brian Tracy  

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.  

- Ted Turner  

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.  

- Source Unknown  

Your attitude determines your altitude.  

- Source Unknown  

Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.  

- Source Unknown  

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.  

- Source Unknown  

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.  

- Source Unknown  

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.  

- Source Unknown  

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  

- Source Unknown  

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.  

- Source Unknown  

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.  

- Source Unknown  

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.  

- Source Unknown  

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  

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.  

- C M Ward  

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  

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  

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.  

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox  

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!  

- Mclandburgh Wilson  

Nothing will work unless you do.  

- John Wooden  

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

- John Wooden  

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