99 Attitude Quotes

1.  Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. W. Clement Stone
2. A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Tom Stoppard
3. 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
4. What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. V. S. Naipaul
5. I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament. Michael Chang
6. 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
7. Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it. Waylon Jennings
8. Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. Evan Parker
9. If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. Charles Revson
10. The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. Helmut Jahn
11. Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude. Dean Cain
12. The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes. Jack Dee
13. Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. W. Clement Stone
14. 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
15. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran
16. If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. Allan Carr
17. The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game. Andrew Bogut
18. The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. Carroll Quigley
19. I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. Eddie Vedder
20. 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
21. Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me. Melanie Brown
22. It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. Norm MacDonald
23. My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. Simon Cowell
24. The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. Denis Waitley
25. We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. Anne Hathaway
26. But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media. Robert McChesney
27. When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. Robert Evans
28. Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. William Lyon Mackenzie King
29. I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
30. I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. Geoffrey Rush
31. Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not. Scott Brown
32. I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. Derek Bok
33. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. Pope Benedict XVI
34. Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. David Byrne
35. Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. Frank Sinatra
36. Attitude is everything. Diane von Furstenberg
37. The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. Georg Baselitz
38. A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale
39. I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe. Peter Mandelson
40. If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. John McCarthy
41. That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. John Schlesinger
42. Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. Steven Biko
43. Surfers have the most attitude. Shaun White
44. I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. Ritchie Blackmore
45. No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. Karl Popper
46. I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. Tony Hillerman
47. I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times. Ariel Sharon
48. Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. Josh McDowell
49. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. Norman Vincent Peale
50. My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
51. You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. Allen Klein
52. Attitude determines the altitude of life. Edwin Louis Cole
53. I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it. Betty White
54. I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude. Richard Fleeshman
55. I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they don't give you a hard time. Teddy Thompson
56. My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. Parker Posey
57. 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
58. There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song. Todd Phillips
59. There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. Robert Collier
60. I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes. Lawrence Kasdan
61. You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. Alan Perlis
62. 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
63. Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. Brit Hume
64. I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have. Gary Numan
65. Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. Earl Nightingale
66. 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
67. The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation. Gary Locke
68. That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. June Jordan
69. If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. Christopher Lambert
70. Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. Imelda Staunton
71. People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. John C. Maxwell
72. 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
73. There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it. Len G. Murray
74. My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down. Donny Osmond
75. But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people. Cliff Richard
76. Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. Elbert Hubbard
77. A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. Ted Lindsay
78. In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview. Michael Kinsley
79. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James
80. I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game. Dennis Eckersley
81. We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground. Benjamin Carson
82. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. Milan Kundera
83. My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. Jim Dine
84. I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude. Kate Bosworth
85. 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
86. It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way. Adam Savage
87. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo
88. I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. Colin Powell
89. Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you. Hugh Jackman
90. When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. Richard Pryor
91. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz
92. Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. Clarence Thomas
93. 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
94. Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste. Malcolm Mclaren
95. There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work. Kiefer Sutherland
96. Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time. John Cale
97. I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled. Francine Prose
98. An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. William Minto
99. I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. Hollis Stacy