Positive Thinking And Attitude Quotes

• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

  Dorothy Day

  Life, Forgiveness, Weed

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  Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

  Alex Karras

  Strength, Fitness, Inspirational Sports

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Wisdom of a forefather" by Colorado State University, February 11, 2009.

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• You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

  Ralph Marston

  Positive, Success, Determination

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• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Positive, Graduation

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

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• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

  Scott Hamilton (2009). “The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Leadership, Wisdom, Attitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1898). “As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things”

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

  Henri Matisse

  Positive, Beautiful, Art

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Positive, Attitude

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.41

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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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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• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

  William Bennett

  Motivational, Jobs, Attitude

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• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Positive, Hope, Attitude

  The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.

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• Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

  Maurice Setters

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Attitude

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• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself

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• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

  A. C. Benson

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• 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.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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