Positive Inspirational Attitude Quotes

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Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart
Anthony J. D'Angelo 

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness
William Arthur Ward 

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do
Mother Teresa 

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without
Buddha

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be
the beginning of a happier life for ourselves

Helen Keller 

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile,
and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity

Louis 'Lou' Holtz 

Happiness is not something readymade,
it comes from your own actions

Dalai Lama

Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself,
if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong

Paul Newman

Give without remembering and always receive without forgetting
Unknown

The way you see people is the way you treat them
and the way you treat them is what they become

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else
Margaret Mead

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home
Betty Bender

The difference between extraordinary people and ordinary people
is as simple as the difference between the two words. 
Extraordinary people are committed to doing the
extra things that ordinary people won't
Christine Kinney

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it
French Proverb

Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life
John R. Wooden

Life is not a matter of holding good cards,
but of playing a poor hand well
Robert Louis Stevenson

The two most important days in your life are the day
you are born and the day you find out why
Mark Twain

When you focus on the good, the good gets better
Author Unknown

What you do has far greater impact than what you say
Stephen Covey

Where focus goes, energy flows
Tony Robbins

People who shine from within don't need a spotlight
Author Unknown

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude
John C Maxwell

At the end of the day it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished . . .
it's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better.
It's about what what you've given back
Denzel Washington

Start each day with an attitude of gratitude
Author Unknown

Don't judge a book by its cover
George Eliot

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts
Marcus Aurelius

Life is about moments. Create them, don't wait for them
Author Unknown

Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it
Charles R. Swindoll

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion
Paulo Coelho

A bad attitude is like a flat tyre, you can't go anywhere without changing it
Author Unknown

One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

The quieter you become, the more you can hear
Author Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
Thomas Jefferson

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love
Mother Teresa

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age
Christopher Morley

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

William James

Ask yourself a question - Is my attitude worth catching?
Zig Ziglar

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think 
Benjamin Disraeli 

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure
Joseph Campbell

Learn to express rather than impress. 
Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude
E. James Rohn

Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours
Tom Hopkins

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with
whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along
Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill
Christopher Parker

You are the conductor of your own attitude!
Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you
 Lee J. Colan

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes
Mahatma Gandhi

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable,
those that are movable, and those that move
Benjamin Franklin


You can't always change your situation, but you can always change your attitude
Larry Hargraves

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude
Maya Angelou

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will
Zig Ziglar

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


He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan,
carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.
But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered
merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign

Victor Hugo

If a man empties his purse in his head, no one can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
Benjamin Franklin

Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
Claude T. Bissell

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to
know whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action.
Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger,
wiser, more skillful and more loving

Steve Brunkhorst

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us
Earl Nightingale

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams
Les Brown

There is a 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

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

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self

Aldous Huxley

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.'
Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you
Brian Tracy

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it.
Life responds to deserve not need

Jim Rohn

We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of,
not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past
Vivek Paul

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy,
care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life

Jean Shinoda Bolen

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself
Galileo

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R. Swindoll

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
Sir Winston Churchill

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations
Faith Baldwin

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life.
But we can decide what happens in us ... how we can take it,
what we can do with it ... and that is what really counts in the end
Joseph Fort Newton

Do your work with all your heart and you will succeed
Elbert Hubbard

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and
vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says,
'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it
William James

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


When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with
the positive principle, you can do incredible things
Norman Vincent Peale

The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude.
Right attitudes produce right actions
William J. Johnson

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts
Madeleine L'Engle

If you don't program yourself, life will program you!
Les Brown

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over
and showing it principally in one place
Josh Billings

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Nido Qubein

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any
given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way
Viktor Frankl

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement.
We become what we think about

Earl Nightingale

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of success
Denis Waitley

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think
Clarence Darrow

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someday may never come. So live each day better than the last.
That way you'll wake up with so much excitement and anticipation
you'll jump out of bed and shout 'I can't wait!'
Bob Perks

It takes a smart person to have the last word and not use it
Author Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end

Ursula Le Guin

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body.
It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression.
It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens.
It is the direct route to serenity and contentment

Grenville Kleiser

I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them

George Bernard Shaw

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

William James

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity
Publilius Syrus

Sometimes the slightest shift in the way you look at things,
a seemingly insignificant change in perspective can alter your life forever
Author Unknown

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
African Proverb

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how
anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R. Covey

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing,
do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own
Albert Schweitzer

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels
Hazrat Inayat Khan

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?'
The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
Jim Rohn

Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society
William Makepeace

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to
Robert Half

The world can change in an instant.
So can the way you choose to see it.
Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others

Bob Perks

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is
out looking for four-leaf clovers
Author Unknown

Create your future from your future, not from your past
Werner Erhard

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway
John Wayne

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise
Mary Kay Ash

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it
Michelangelo

I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
Jonas Salk

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing
Albert Schweitzer

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power
to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change

Barbara DeAngelis

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing.
The first said, 'I'm cutting this stone into blocks.'
The second replied, 'I'm on a team that's building a cathedral'

Author Unknown

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them
Henry Hoskins

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow.
Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show

Author Unknown

Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen; not in the future but right now

Eileen Caddy

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out
James. B. Conant

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

Lou Holtz

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness
Charles Sprugeon

Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it was
John Chambers

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot
Michael Althsuler

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey
Babs Hoffman

What is important is not what happens to us,
but how we respond to what happens to us
Jean-Paul Sartre

People who have a positive attitude, are inspired, motivated and passionate
about what they believe in, communicate better and more effectively

Keith Ready

Your attitude determines your altitude
Zig Ziglar

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests
John Stuart Mill

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all
Sam Ewig

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things
Author Unknown

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

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

William James

You are what you think about all day long
Dr. Robert Schuller

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
Author Unknown

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind,
is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

Mark Horton

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