Attitude Quotes


People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
– John C. Maxwell

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

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
– Earl Nightingale

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

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
– Albert Einstein

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
– Karl Popper

Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitude. It's having the right attitude that is hard.
– Robert M. Pirsig

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
– James Truslow Adams
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.
– James Truslow Adams
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
– Walter Anderson
I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
– Don Baylor
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
– Beck
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
– Walter Benjamin
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
– William J. Brennan, Jr.
A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
– Tom Brady
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
– Raymond Chandler
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
– Graham Chapman
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
– Stuart Chase
The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
– Dick Cheney
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
– Agatha Christie
You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.
– Eric Carr
My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
– Simon Cowell
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
– Neil Diamond
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
– Charles Edwards
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.
– Steve Forbes
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
– Harold S. Geneen
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
– Thomas Griffith
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
– Herbie Hancock
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
– Edward Heath
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
– Victor Hugo
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
– Henry S. Haskins
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
– Brit Hume
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
– Ivan Illich
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
– Christopher Isherwood
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
– Ferguson Jenkins
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
– Yousuf Karsh
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
– Donald Knuth
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
– Michael Korda
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
– Aleksander Kaasniewski
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.
– Juliette Lewis
Attitudes are more important than facts.
– George MacDonald
I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.
– Tobey Maguire
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
– Og Mandino
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
– Marcel Marceau
As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.
– Dan Marino
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
– John McCarthy
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
– John N. Mitchell
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
– William H. Mauldin
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
– Samantha Mumba
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
– Dale Murphy
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
– Earl Nightingale
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
– Ted Nugent
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
– Alan Perlis
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
– Colin Powell
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
– Pat Riley
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
– Simon Raven
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
– Charles Revson
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
– Brian Tracy
I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
– Ted Turner
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
– Shania Twain
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
– Ludwig von Mises
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
– Oscar Wilde
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
– August Wilson
My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
– James Woods
Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
– Angus Young
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
– Viktor E. Frankl
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
– Lou Holtz
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. 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 ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.
– Charles Swindoll
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
– Zig Ziglar
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
– Allen Klein
You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.
– Maurice Greene
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
– Allen Klein
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.
– Dick Gregory
You know what's funny to me? Attitude.
– Don Rickles
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
– Adriana Lima
You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
– Don Rickles
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
– Rob Sheffield
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.
– Miranda Richardson
You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
– Lewis Grizzard
Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.
– Kathleen Hanna
With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
– Doris Roberts
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
– Shane Warne
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
Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.
– Michael Clarke Duncan
When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
– Tom T. Hall
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
– Norman Vincent Peale
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
– Charles R. Swindoll
When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.
– Richard Dreyfuss
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
– Meister Eckhart
When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
– Rick Santelli
When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
– Richard Pryor
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
– John McGahern
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
– Karl Lagerfeld
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
– Christopher Hitchens
When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'
– Pauline Neville-Jones
When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
– Mick Mars
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
– Christian Louboutin
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
– Robert Evans