Your attitude is everything. The way you interpret what happens to you in life can make or break you. Your attitude is a major factor that can help you to live to your full potential. Therefore, it’s of the greatest importance to understand how your manifold attitudes shape how you think and behave. Even more so, it’s also important to leverage the power of attitude if you seek to push beyond your limits. In the following, you can find a collection of inspiring attitude quotes. These quotes about attitude will show you how powerfully your attitudes govern your entire perception of life.
As already mentioned, attitude is everything. The good thing, however, is that your attitudes do not necessarily have to be written in stone. Attitudes are flexible and can be adapted relatively quickly to better suit your needs.
“I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll
Think of your mind as a computer. Your mind operates a certain number of attitudes that shape how you think, feel, and act. If you identify attitudes that are limiting you and hinder you from pursuing your goals, you replace them with more beneficial ones.
Attitude is everything. Discover the following collection of powerful attitude quotes.
The key, however, is to identify all the negative attitudes and beliefs that do not contribute to the pursuit of your dreams. Once you start becoming fully aware of unproductive attitudes, you can gradually begin to replace them with more productive ones.
To help you in your quest of changing your attitudes, we’ve created a collection of attitude quotes. These quotes will inspire you to understand the great power that attitudes exert over your life.
75 Mind Altering Attitude Quotes
What is so powerful about attitude quotes is that they remind you of the fact that your attitudes can shape your entire existence. As such, the authors of these wise statements will help you to identify areas of improvement. Even more so, they will suggest powerful attitudes that help you to reach for the stars.
Here are these inspiring attitude quotes
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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston S. Churchill
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
Martha Washington
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“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For, after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“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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“I will always find a way and a way will always find me.”
Charles F. Glassman
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“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.”
W. Clement Stone
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”
Irving Berlin
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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
Dale Carnegie
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.”
Roy T. Bennett
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
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I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life – whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. […] And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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“None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world’s evils; it’s all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.”
Azar Nafisi
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“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
Rick Warren
19.
“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
Roy T. Bennett
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“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
Seneca
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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
Henry Ford
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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
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“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
Christopher Hitchens
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“I love those who can smile in trouble…”
Leonardo da Vinci
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“We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
Charles R. Swindoll
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“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.”
Jeffrey Gitomer
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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.”
Tony Dungy
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“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.”
Epictetus
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“If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.”
Deborah Day
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor E. Frankl
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“Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?”
Gregory Peck
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“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.”
Epictetus
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“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.”
Subodh Gupta
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“When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.”
Roy T. Bennett
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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
Steve Jobs
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“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
Roopleen
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“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
Santosh Kalwar
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“Jesus was saying that you can’t have a larger life with restricted attitudes.”
Joel Osteen
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“It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.”
Conan O’Brien
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“Your attitude determines how you experience the world.”
Sanaya Roman
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“The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.”
Rich DeVos
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“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”
Yogi Bhajan
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“You can see [the]real attitude of [a]man when he’s terrified.”
Toba Beta
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“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; it’s your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.”
C. JoyBell C.
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“Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.”
Rodolfo Costa
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“Kil your positive attitudes and you’ll kill your chances of succeeding in life.”
Stephen Magnus
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“Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be”
Anthony Robbins
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“The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.”
Douglas MacArthur
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“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.”
Katherine Mansfield
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“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?”
Diane Duane
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“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
Thomas A. Edison
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“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
J.M. Barrie
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“Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail – time and time again.”
Suzy Kassem
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“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
C. JoyBell C.
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“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.”
J. Sidlow Baxter
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“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is ‘out there’ – as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.”
Byron Katie
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“A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.”
Israelmore Ayivor
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“A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a deliberate and rational analysis of what’s required to manifest unwavering positive thought patterns.”
H.E. Davey
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“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel
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“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. „
Marianne Williamson
70.
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.”
Rodolfo Costa
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“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
Miguel Ruiz
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“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Bertrand Russell
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“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
Brian Tracy
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“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”
Rick Warren
Conclusion
“You must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
I hope you enjoyed this collection of inspiring attitude quotes. What are your favorite quotes that help you to get a positive outlook on life?
Stay victorious!
