Quotations   about Attitude

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.  ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995


Attitudes are contagious.  Is yours worth catching?  ~Author Unknown


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


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


If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.  ~Cavett Robert


It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.  ~Annie Gottlier


Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.  It's what you do with what you have left.  ~Hubert Humphrey


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  ~Winston Churchill


Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.  ~Author Unknown


Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.  ~Francesca Reigler


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit


So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.  ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.  ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book


Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.  ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin


To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.  ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness


The only disability in life is a bad attitude.  ~Scott Hamilton


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.  ~J. Brotherton


Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.  ~Annette Goodheart


To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.  ~Ancient Proverb


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


I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.  ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.  ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok


Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.  ~English Proverb


The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.  ~William James 1818


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


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  ~Robert Brault


Success is due less to ability than to zeal.  ~Charles Buxton


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


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


My pain is self-chosen.  ~Mad Season, "River of Deceit"


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  ~Betty Smith


Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.  ~Walt Whitman


No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.  ~Ellen Glasgow


There's a saying among prospectors:  "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."  ~Robert Flaherty


I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.  ~Author Unknown


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.  ~C.C. Scott


Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.  ~Maurice Setter


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


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


Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.  ~Arthur Christopher Benson


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


If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.  ~Susan Longacre


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


Positive anything is better than negative thinking.  ~Elbert Hubbard



People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.  ~Epictetus


Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.  ~Helen MacInness


We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.  ~Joseph Campbell


Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.  ~Ralph Marston