Attitude Quotes - Page 6

• Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Circumstances

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Thinking Big”, p.141, David C Cook

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• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Life, Happiness, Events

  "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.

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• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Air, Giving, Conversation

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.67

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• The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

  Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

  Inspirational, Expectations, Quality

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• We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

  Robert Breault

  Golf, Balls, Looks

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Sarcasm, Vanity, Giving

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• Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Positive, Feet, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.373, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

  Edwin H Friedman

  Real, Speech, Figures

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• Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive Mental Attitude, Mental Attitude

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• Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau" by A. R. Orage, The Century Magazine, November 1924.

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• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Amy Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Relationship, Leadership, Real

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Philosophical, Men

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• Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

  Gregory Peck

  Workout, Bodybuilding, People

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• 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.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Love, Life, Learning

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• If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

  Earl Nightingale

  World, Excellent, Results

  Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  I Can

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• All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

  Harvey Mackay

  Positive Attitude, Technology, World

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• You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

  Denis Waitley

  How You Feel, Projects, Feels

  Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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  I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

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• Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

  Albert Ellis

  Mean, Feelings, Doe

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