Short Positive Attitude Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from May 11, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Nautical, My 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

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

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

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

When you love life, life will love you back.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Attitude, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

- William James

topic: Philosophical, Thinking, Men, My Generation, Inspirational Attitude

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

- Patricia Neal

source: "Patricia Neal obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

topic: Motivational, Positive, Strong, Great Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Determination, Customer Experience, My Attitude

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

- Joan Lunden

source: "Joan Lunden talks about her book, 'Wake-Up Calls'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

topic: Positive, Attitude, Positive Attitude, Good Attitude, Short Positive 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

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

topic: Positive, Attitude, Certain, Inner Peace And Happiness, Inspirational Attitude

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

source: "Fictional character: Mary Lennox". "The Secret Garden", www.imdb.com. August 13, 1993.

topic: Cheer Up, Garden, Perspective, Secret Garden, Positive Outlook

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Great Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Positive, Gratitude, Appreciation, Positive Attitude And Success, Positive Attitude In Life

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

- William James

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

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

- Jim Evans

topic: Attitude, Positive Thinking, Good Day, Great Attitude, Great Positive Attitude

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

- Anthony Storr

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

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

- A. C. Benson

topic: Motivational, Change, Positive, Inspiring Change, Very Positive

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

- David Bailey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Dream, Dreams Can Come True, Making Dreams Come True

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Difficult Life, Leaders Motivational

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports, Keep A Positive Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

source: "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Solstice, Invincibility

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

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 be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

- Ken Keyes Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Karma, Inspirational Attitude, Positive Attitude And Success

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Happiness, Spiritual, Reflection, Keep A Positive Attitude, Life 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

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

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

- Alice Morse Earle

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong, Brand New Day, Keep A Positive Attitude

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

- Eudora Welty

source: Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Positive, Happiness, Morning, Sorrow And Happiness, Life 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

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

- Bill Meyer

topic: Positive Thinking, Apples, Golden, Planting Seeds, Good Thoughts

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

- David Ambrose

topic: Inspirational, Success, Winning, Short Positive Attitude

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

- Robert Breault

topic: Positive Thinking, Special, Celebrate, Scrapbooking, Inspirational Positive Attitude

Make your optimism come true.

- Christian D. Larson

source: Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Attitude, Optimistic, Positive Thinking, My Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Airplane, Wind, Difficult Life, Inspirational Perseverance, Leaders Motivational

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