Quotes on Attitude
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Scott Beach's grandfather

A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.

Henry Hillman

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Unknown

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David J. Schwartz

A bad attitude is the worst thing that can happen to a group of people. It's infectious.

Roger Allan Raby

Everyone has the power to make others happy. Some do it by entering the room, others by leaving it.

Unknown

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

I try to hold grudges, but they always wiggle out of my hands.

Duane Alan Hahn

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

If you feel there are others below you, you will feel the crush of others above you.

Duane Alan Hahn

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

R. M. Baumgardy

Take the attitude of a student. Never be to big to ask questions. Never know to much to learn something new.

Og Mandino

It's not your aptitude but your attitude that will determine your altitude.

Jesse Jackson (adapted)

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

Positivity is a necessity.

Kevens

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Robert E. Speer

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Lou Holtz

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Thaddeus Golas

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lena Horne

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

John Wooden

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Anais Nin

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Abraham Lincoln

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