Positive Attitude Quotes

These positive attitude quotes are to help you see the larger, lighter picture of life.

I once heard a little story that put it well. Someone said to a lecturer - I think it was Zig Ziglar - who had been talking about finding motivation that "Motivation doesn´t last!". To which the lecturer said that neither does bathing, which is why he recommends it daily.

You will find more positive attitude quotes under positive thinking quotes too. Never too much positive thinking in this world - that´s why I put lots of positive thinking quotes here...

Positive Attitude Quotes A

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

- William Arthur Ward

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.

- Ken Keyes, Jr.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

- G.K. Chesterton

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Positive Attitude Quotes A by Anonymous

Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.

- Anonymous

Positive Attitude Quotes B

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Positive Attitude Quotes B by Anonymous

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.

- Anonymous

Positive Attitude Quotes C by Anonymous

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

-Joshua J. Marine

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

- Katherine Mansfield

Positive Attitude Quotes E

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

- Robert Brault

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

- Bill Meyer

Every wall is a door.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

- Ralph Marston

Positive Attitude Quotes E by Anonymous

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.

- Anonymous

Positive Attitude Quotes G

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.

- Glorie Abelhas

Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

- Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning"

Positive Attitude Quotes H

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

- Francesca Reigler

Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.

-Henry David Thoreau

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.

- Walt Whitman

Positive Attitude Quotes I

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

- Voltaire

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

- Winston Churchill

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

- Abraham Lincoln

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

- Anne Frank

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

- Arthur Rubinstein

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

- Wernher von Braun

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

- Galileo Galilei

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

- Henry Moore

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

- Francis Rabelais

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

- Oscar Wilde

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

- Mary Engelbreit

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

- David Ambrose

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

- Napoleon

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus,

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

- Albert Einstein

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

- Annie Gottlier

Positive Attitude Quotes I by Anonymous

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

- ancient persian saying

I wish I was a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!

- Anonymous

Positive Attitude Quotes J

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.

- Annette Goodheart

Positive Attitude Quotes L

Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not.

- Adabella Radici

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

- Betty Smith

Positive Attitude Quotes M

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

- Paavo Nurmi

Positive Attitude Quotes M by Anonymous

Make your optimism come true.

- Anonymous

Positive Attitude Quotes N

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

- Ellen Glasgow

Positive Attitude Quotes O

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

- Hubert Humphrey

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

-Earl Nightingale

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.

-Tom Blandi

Positive Attitude Quotes P

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

- Epictetus

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

- Elbert Hubbard

Positive Attitude Quotes R

Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

-Howard Cutler

Positive Attitude Quotes S

Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.

-William James

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

~The Eagles

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr

Positive Attitude Quotes S by Anonymous

Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities.

-Anonymous

Positive Attitude Quotes T

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

- Eudora Welty

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

- William James

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

- C.C. Scott

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

- John Burroughs

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

-Norman Vincent Peale

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

-Winston Churchill

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time is always right to do what is right.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on them.

- Will Foley

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

- Frederick Faber

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

- Robert Flaherty

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

- Art Linkletter

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

This time like all times is a very good one if we know what to do with it.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

-Norman Vincent Peale

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

- Ken S. Keyes, Jr.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

- Confucius

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves, but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

-Pema Chodron

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Positive Attitude Quotes T by Anonymous

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.

-Anonymous

The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.

- Anonymous

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

- Swedish proverb

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.

- An old proverb

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

- Maori proverb

Positive Attitude Quotes V

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

- Arthur Christopher Benson

Positive Attitude Quotes W

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

- Elbert Hubbard

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

- Kenneth Clark

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt...

- Dorothy Day

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

-Pericles

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

-Henry Ford

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

- Oswald Avery

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.

-Timothy Bentley

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

-Georgia O'Keeffe

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

- Robert Brault

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.

-Henry Ford

Positive Attitude Quotes W by Anonymous

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

- Anonymous

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long.

- Anonymous

Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them.

- Author Unknown

Positive Attitude Quotes Y

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

-Paul H. Duhn

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.

-John Homer Mille

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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