Having A Positive Attitude Quotes:

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

- Henry Moore

topic: Positive, Thinking, Given, Inspirational Positive Attitude, Positive Thinking Inspirational

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not 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

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Some People Never Change, My Attitude

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Best Success, Managing Change

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

- Walter Scott

topic: Success, Attitude, Important, My Attitude, Way To Success

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

- William Allen White

source: "Vice President Joe Biden's Commencement speech at WFU". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2009.

topic: Positive, Yesterday, Today, Headstone, Fear Of The Future

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

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Attitude, My Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

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

topic: Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Just Live Your Life, Keep A Positive Attitude

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

- Robert H. Schuller

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Single, Attitude, Past, Motivational Attitude, Bad Attitude

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- H. G. Wells

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Memorable, What Matters, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Graduation, Shoot For The Moon, Individual Differences

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

- Leroy van Dyke

topic: Success, Inspirational Cancer, Great Attitude, Great Positive Attitude, Inspiring Cancer

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

- Willie Nelson

source: FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

topic: Life, Positive, Anger, Inspirational Positive Attitude, Mind Thinking

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

- Galileo Galilei

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Learning, Positive Thinking And Attitude, Positive Thinking Attitude

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Ambition, My Attitude, Inspirational Character

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!

- Anne Frank

topic: Beauty, Thanksgiving, Sunshine, Life Is Beautiful, Inspirational Positive Attitude

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong, Softball Team, Good Thoughts

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Success, About Success

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.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, My Attitude, Great Attitude

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Cancer

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

- Confucius

topic: Positive, Forgiveness, Attitude, Wronged, Inspirational Forgiveness

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, I Am Thankful, Grumbling

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspiring Sales

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Motivational, Pain, Attitude, Great Positive Attitude, Positive Attitude And Success

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

- Katharine Graham

topic: Motivational, Fun, Matter, Working Girl, Having A Positive Attitude

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Attitude, Worry, Positive Attitude, Having A Positive Attitude, Not Worrying

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

- Chetan Bhagat

topic: Self, Busy, Criticize, Improving Yourself, Sunny Side

As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

- Mary McCarthy

source: "Characters in Fiction". Partisan Review, March/April 1961.

topic: Hero, Believe, Suspense, Suspense Novels, Day To Day

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

- Imelda Staunton

topic: Positive, Inspiring, Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude, Having A Positive Attitude

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

source: "Dick Cavett Show", PBS, July 17, 1978.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Bad Attitude, Bad Karma

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

- Wernher von Braun

source: "At My Best: 365 Meditations For The Physical, Spiritual, And Emotional Well-Being". Book by Anonymous (p. 284), October 14, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Positive Attitude, Carefulness

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Positive, Men, Shoes, Great Positive Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

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

topic: Love, Relationship, Marriage, Inspirational Attitude, Great Attitude

I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!

- Sasha Azevedo

topic: Attitude, Regret, Would Be, Great Positive Attitude, Life Attitude

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: graf Leo Tolstoy (1949). “Childhood, Boyhood and Youth”

topic: Attitude, Men, Expectations, Personal Appearance, Having A Positive Attitude

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it

- Will Foley

topic: Business, Cactus, World, Great Positive Attitude, Positive Thinking Attitude

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Attitude, Taking Charge, My Attitude, Great Attitude, Great Positive Attitude

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Attitude, My Attitude, Great Attitude

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

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Real, Inner Voice, Great Positive Attitude

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirations Being Yourself

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Life Worth Living, Having A Positive Attitude

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

source: Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

topic: Positive, Acceptance, Grace, Keep A Positive Attitude, Ocean Wave

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Life, Positive, Attitude, Inspirational Attitude, Motivational Attitude

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

topic: Motivational, Positive, Gratitude, Great Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

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

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

topic: Change, Positive, Attitude, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Always Happy, Good Thoughts