Attitude Quotes

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

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

William James

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Thomas Troward

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

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

Victor Hugo

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Funny is an attitude.

Flip Wilson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams