When it comes to achieving success, attitude is critical. As Tony Robbins said, 80 percent of success is due to psychology – mindset, beliefs and emotions – and only 20 percent is due to strategy – the specific steps needed to accomplish a result.”
The great news is that, just as you have the power to choose your wardrobe, your menu and the type of car you drive, you have the power to choose your attitude.
These quotes will move you further along the path of choosing the appropriate attitude.
“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
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react.”
Chuck Swindoll
“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances, instead of your circumstances having power over you.”
Joyce Meyer
“Your day usually follows the direction of the corners of your mouth. So SMILE.”
Gregory Dickow
“You can’t be a smart cookie with a crummy attitude.”
John C. Maxwell
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his/her life by altering his/her attitude of mind.”
William James
“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”
Chuck Swindoll
“If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will.”
Joel Osteen
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.”
Winston Churchill
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing.”
Philippians 2:14
“You must have the same attitude that Jesus Christ had.”
Philippians 2:5
“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”
William Glasser
“Remember, whatever game you play, 90 percent of success is from the shoulders up.”
Milfred Palmer (Arnold Palmer’s father)
“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.”
W.W. Ziege
“Attitude is the reflection of a person and our world mirrors our attitude.”
Earl Nightingale
“A person’s attitude toward himself has a profound influence on his attitude toward God, his family, his friends, his future, and many other significant areas of his life.”
Bill Gothard
“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
“You can’t make an overdraft on the bank of right mental attitude all your life and bring the account up to date with one deposit.”
Zig Ziglar
“Most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.”
Marty Lloyd-Jones
“Your problem isn’t the problem, it’s your attitude about the problem.”
Ann Brashares
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
Ralph Marston
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
John Wooden
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance.”
Robert Greene
“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.”
Jackson Brown, Jr
“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.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
Joyce Meyer
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.”
John C. Maxwell
“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.”
C. Fields
“Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.”
Wayne Dyer
“Attitude is altitude.”
Nick Vujicic
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
Harry S. Truman
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
Colin Powell
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
“Attitudes are more important than facts.”
George MacDonald
“Attitude will always define who we are in life.”
Mark A. Brennan
“Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.”
John C. Maxwell
“Every wall is a door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.”
Payne Stewart
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Colin Powell
“If you own this story you get to write the ending.”
Brené Brown
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
William James
“The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”
Scott Peck
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“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
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.”
Wade Boggs
“A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you’re heading in the wrong direction.”
Richard M. DeVos
“I will say this about an optimist – even when things don’t turn out well, you are certain they will get better.”
Frank Hughes
“Attitudes are caught, not taught.”
Elwood N. Chapman
”In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel Reardon
“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you mention…I go out there thinking I am going to complete every pass.”
Ron Jaworski
“It may not be your fault for being down, but it’s got to be your fault for not getting up.”
Steve Davis
“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.”
W.W. Ziege
“A person’s attitude toward himself has a profound influence on his attitude toward God, his family, his friends, his future, and many other significant areas of his life.”
Bill Gothard
“You can’t make an overdraft on the bank of right mental attitude all your life and bring the account up to date with one deposit.”
Zig Ziglar
“Attitude is the reflection of a person and the world mirrors our attitude.”
Earl Nightingale
“Attitude is the speaker of our present; It is the prophet of our future.”
John Maxwell
“It is not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts, or what we think has happened.”
Tim Hansel
“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.”
Sidlow Baxter
“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
Roy T. Bennett
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