Sometimes, it’s easy to let the little problems in our daily lives get us down and it can be difficult to have a positive attitude. Attitude is important when it comes to a person’s character and personality as it can say a lot about that person. Regardless of what’s going on in your life, it’s the attitude that counts.
Is the glass half empty, or half full?
Is it an ending or a new beginning?
Is it failure or experience?
How you think about things determines the quality of your life. Your attitude is everything.
Here’s a list of 100 inspirational quotes about the attitude that could help you if you’re struggling with your outlook.
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
Albert Einstein
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
William James
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
John C. Maxwell
“A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.”
Subodh Gupta
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer.”
Dabo Swinney
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
Aldous Huxley
“A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.”
Johhny Depp, Captain Jack Sparrow
“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
Joe Biden
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
Maya Angelou
“Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.”
Dwayne Johnson
“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.”
Matt Cameron
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller
“Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws or your rejection of the natural laws.”
Stuart Chase
“Your attitude can take you forward, or your attitude can take you down. The choice is always yours!”
Catherine Pulsifer
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results.”
Wade Boggs
“Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think. What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.”
Tony Dungy
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Having a positive attitude isn’t wishy-washy, it’s a concrete and intelligent way to view problems, challenges, and obstacles.”
Jeff Moore
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
Hans Selye
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
Muhammad Ali
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
William James
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.”
John N. Mitchell
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
Walt Disney
“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude.”
Charles W. Swindoll
“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
“Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities.”
Jack Ma
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark Twain
“Don’t change your attitude and character for anyone, the one who wants you, will not change you.”
P.S. Jagadeesh
“Your attitude is either the lock on or the key to the door of success.”
Denis Waitley
“Keep a positive attitude, even if results don’t seem to be occurring as quickly as you want them to.”
James Thompson
“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.”
John C. Maxwell
“You need an attitude of survival. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
Charles Dickens
“When the negative thoughts come—and they will; they come to all of us—it’s not enough to just not dwell on it…. You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.”
Joel Osteen
“A bad attitude can literally block love, blessings, and destiny from finding you. Don’t be the reason you don’t succeed.”
Mandy Hale
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Robert Foster Bennett
“You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.”
Alfred Armand Montapert
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
Kobe Bryant
“Some of my attitude is a result of your action, so if you don’t like my attitude blame yourself.”
Unknown
“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circ*mstances.”
Donald Walters
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
W. Clement Stone
“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Your day is going to be good or bad it depends upon your attitude.”
Priyanshu Singh
“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
“A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.”
Barbara Corcoran
“Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.”
Unknown
“The key to life is your attitude. Whether you’re single or married or have kids or don’t have kids, it’s how you look at your life, and what you make of it. It’s about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.”
Candace Bushnell
“You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.”
Lee J. Colan
“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
“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A great attitude to have in life is to learn how to be prepared for the worst – but also know how to expect the best in life.”
Dylan J. Cameron
“If we choose a positive, loving attitude that honors all life and embrace the changes as much as possible, things won’t be quite as difficult.”
Richard L. Haight
“The direction you allow your attitude to go in the same direction you will find your life moving sooner or later.”
Dr. D. K. Olukoya
“In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Building a positive attitude begins with having confidence in yourself.”
Roger Fritz
“A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, every day, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live.”
Elizabeth Edwards
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If we are given happiness, it’s easy to pass it on. If we are experiencing anger and pain, they are even easier to pass on. We transfer attitudes and emotions automatically unless we make an active choice not to.”
Nate Dallas
“We need to develop a “vacation attitude” every day by being focused on what we need to accomplish by the end of each day.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are weeds that strangle confidence.”
Bruce Lee
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Attitude, to me, is more important than money. It is more important than the future, the past, education, circ*mstances, failure, success, it is even more important than what other people think or say.”
Brad Hanson
“The best people in sales are those who are always in control of their own attitude. They remain calm, positive, cheerful, and engaging whatever the situation may be.”
Dan Goldberg
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circ*mstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs
“If you want a better life you will have to earn it, you will have to change your lazy attitude into a progressive one.”
O’Neil Brown
“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.”
Wade Boggs
“A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.”
Grant Fairley
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it.”
John C. Maxwell
“When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”
Charles W. Swindoll
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
Gail Devers
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman
“I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”
Michael Jordan
“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett
“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
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
Harold S. Geneen
“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.”
Arthur Gordon
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
Scott Hamilton
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
John Wooden
“We contend that you must keep a positive attitude. Luck follows those who are persistent and patient. You just keep your hook in the water and hope for the best.”
Rick Smith
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Colin Powell
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“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
“Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.”
Earl Nightingale
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
Harry Truman
“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.”
Paulo Coelho
“Morale and attitude are the fundamental ingredients to success.”
Bud Wilkinson
“Remember, our attitude at the start of a task can determine the outcome, therefore promise yourself you will get the job done without stress.”
Norah Deay
“People with an attitude of success make a special effort to stay on top of the things that are going on in their field of interest.”
Bob Roth
“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Wrapping Up
A good attitude is a quality that people tend to look for in others but fail or struggle to display it themselves. We hope you enjoyed these quotes about attitude and if they helped you, make sure to share them with others who would find them useful as well.
