105 Inspiring Attitude Quotes

In a world that constantly presents challenges and opportunities, the right mindset can make all the difference. Our attitude towards life's ups and downs not only shapes our personal journey but also influences those around us. To help you cultivate a positive and resilient outlook, we've assembled a carefully curated list of the top 105 inspiring attitude quotes. These quotes, drawn from the wisdom of influential thinkers, leaders, and creatives, will motivate you to embrace challenges with open arms and view setbacks as stepping stones. Dive in and let these words of wisdom inspire you to develop a mindset that empowers and uplifts, enabling you to navigate life's complexities with grace and confidence.

1. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” - Calvin Coolidge

2. “I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!” - John Waters

3. “The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” - Eudora Welty

4. “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” - Tom Stoppard

5. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” - Marcus Aurelius

6. “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

7. “Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .” - Marcus Aurelius

8. “There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

9. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” - Marcus Aurelius

10. “If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.” - James A. Owen

11. “said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair....Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. "Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough.” - James A. Owen

12. “I am a part of all that I have met.” - Alfred Tennyson

13. “I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a” - Martha Washington

14. “If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?” - John Wooden

15. “To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort” - Gene Kranz

16. “Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.” - Steven Brust

17. “There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.” - Steven Brust

18. “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” - seneca

19. “All things are ready, if our mind be so.” - William Shakespeare

20. “Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.” - Nicholas Boothman

21. “Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.” - Joel Osteen

22. “To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.” - Geraldine Brooks

23. “Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.” - Douglas MacArthur

24. “Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.” - Pablo

25. “Your attitude determines how you experience the world.” - Sanaya Roman

26. “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, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, 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. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” - Charles R. Swindoll

27. “There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.” - W. Clement Stone

28. “Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.” - Alan Lightman

29. “Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT” - Pablo

30. “Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.” - Sonia Rumzi

31. “Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.” - Jeffrey Gitomer

32. “Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.” - Randy Pausch

33. “No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must bethe ultimate believer in yourself!” - Pablo

34. “Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.” - Brandon Sanderson

35. “When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.” - Rodolfo Costa

36. “Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.” - Rodolfo Costa

37. “You can see real attitude of man when he's terrified.” - Toba Beta

38. “Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.” - Katherine Mansfield

39. “I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.” - Rosamund Lupton

40. “Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.” - T.F. Hodge

41. “I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.” - Deb Caletti

42. “The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.” - Pat Conroy

43. “We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?” - Louise Penny

44. “Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow.” - Tina A. Morgan

45. “Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.” - Criss Jami

46. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” - Shannon L. Alder

47. “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.” - Shannon L. Alder

48. “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.” - Nido Qubein

49. “Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.” - Vanna Bonta

50. “A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her” - Deanna Kizis

51. “People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.” - Atul Gawande

52. “Are you living in the moment?” - Asa Don Brown

53. “What is an unconditional state?” - Asa Don Brown

54. “Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.” - James Lane Allen

55. “Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.” - Sherry Argov

56. “Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.” - Ellen DeGeneres

57. “Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?” - John Kennedy Toole

58. “You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.” - Neil Gaiman

59. “Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.” - Abby Morel

60. “Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!” - Lucas Remmerswaal

61. “Z is for Zany! Master the Zany habit of thinking backwards. it will help you become a really great thinker!” - Lucas Remmerswaal

62. “Warren Buffett chuckled and said to me "I hope it's not my bad habits" Good Habits once established are just as hard to break as bad habits and bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. So what are you going to do about it?” - Lucas Remmerswaal

63. “We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.” - Mike Patton

64. “Making bad decisions is a part of life. Blaming others for your bad decisions is immature.” - MI

65. “Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed.” - Apoorve Dubey

66. “Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.” - Lana Del Rey

67. “Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.” - Despair Inc.

68. “Į žmones reikia žiūrėti iš aukštai. Būdavo, užgesinu šviesą ir atsistoju prie lango: jie nė neįtaria, kad juos galima stebėti ir iš viršaus. Jie rūpinasi savo priekiu, kartais užpakaliu, bet visi jų triukai skirti metro setyniasdešimties centimetrų ūgio žiūrovui. O ar kas nors kada pagalvojo, kaip atrodo katiliuko formos kepurė žvelgiant iš septinto aukšto? <...> Vieną vakarą man toptelėjo mintis pašaudyti į žmones.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

69. “I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like the wrong things are always bigger. And all the advie I've ever read --smile more, be yourself, dream big, stay positive--seems to have some darker side that's never mentioned.” - Jane Devin

70. “I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.” - Tom Walsh

71. “Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.” - B.R. Ambedkar

72. “No one can know your strength and weakness better than yourself.” - Rahul Kumar Tilwani

73. “Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved” - Clive Ollies

74. “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.” - Epictetus

75. “You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.” - Sam Harris

76. “Energy doesn't lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you.” - Judith Orloff, M.D.

77. “Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.” - Criss Jami

78. “Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?” - Doug Solter

79. “A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe.  Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go.An awful thing sometime later befell me when the horse was removed from my toe.  Alone and with naught to secure me, I found I was forced to go.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

80. “Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.” - Dr Roopleen

81. “Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.” - Dr Roopleen

82. “Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.” - Dr Roopleen

83. “I’ve got a question for you… Are you the person who you thought you’d be by now? I know I am not. The fact is that life may not be what you thought it would be by now (If It is, I congratulate you & applaud you) You may feel stuck in a job you don’t like, not making enough money, jobless, or maybe you are in a bad relationship/marriage, or unhappy because you are out of shape…but don’t let that get you down.The key is 2 focus on what you have (Health,Fam,friends etc) instead of what you don’t have. And also in the things that you have done (Finished a Race-College/Got that Diploma/Raise a Family etc) Instead of the things you haven’t done. yetIF where you are now, it’s not where you want to be…know that where you’re going is far more important than where you are now or where you’ve been.Forgive yourself, Accept the current situation & MOVE ON, knowing that from now on you will focus your time & energy on the possibilities & opportunities that lie ahead 4 you in the near future.” - Pablo

84. “Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.” - Apoorve Dubey

85. “It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

86. “You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.” - Bryant McGill

87. “We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]” - Susan Sontag

88. “Every day is a good day when you run.” - Kevin Nelson

89. “We can’t always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.” - Kenneth Blanchard

90. “The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.” - John C. Maxwell

91. “Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.” - Erwin Raphael McManus

92. “Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.” - John C. Maxwell

93. “So it's not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn't matter who - because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them.” - Steph Bowe

94. “Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.” - Wayde Goodall

95. “It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.” - Jeanette Winterson

96. “The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make” - Ollie Slaney

97. “I am a 'Light' seeker with a 'tude'!."~R. Alan Woods [2013]” - R. Alan Woods

98. “...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.” - Myles Munroe

99. “Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.” - Old Sculptor Myles Munroe

100. “I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.” - Gavriil Stiharul

101. “Your mind is your greatest power. Use it well.” - Aneta Cruz

102. “Discovering While Doing Is Natural...But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!” - Sujit Lalwani

103. “This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was.” - John Green

104. “As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.” - Hayley DiMarco

105. “You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.” - Richelle E. Goodrich