Quotes on Attitude

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

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.

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.