128 Inspiring Attitude Quotes

In the whirlwind of daily life, our attitude can shape our experiences and dictate how we navigate challenges. A positive outlook not only brightens our own world but also influences those around us. Whether you're seeking a boost of motivation, a shift in perspective, or simply some words of wisdom to carry you through tough times, we've curated a collection of the top 128 inspiring attitude quotes just for you. Dive in and let these powerful quotes guide your path, ignite your spirit, and remind you of the immense power of a positive mindset.

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. “Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.” - E.M. Forster

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

5. “I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.” - Lisa Alther

6. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” - Marcus Aurelius

7. “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

8. “With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.” - Rupaul

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

10. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” - Yogi Bhajan

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

12. “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

13. “Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.” - Mel Odom

14. “Were you born this infuriating?""It's taken me years of practice.” - Misty Massey

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

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

19. “Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.” - Dr. Amit Abraham

20. “Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.” - Terry Brooks

21. “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ” - Mary Ellen Chase

22. “The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

24. “The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.” - Theodore Roethke

25. “At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed. ” - Chinua Achebe

26. “I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.” - Erle Stanley Gardner

27. “The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.” - Chris Page

28. “Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.” - Irving Berlin

29. “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.” - Rich DeVos

30. “Attitude is everything.” - Diane Von Furstenberg

31. “When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.” - Jonathan Maberry

32. “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

33. “Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.” - Holly Lisle

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

35. “Who else, when we stepped to the line in Torino, was going to be so mentally tough? Who else would have proven to himself that he could do anything he set out to do? In a sport that was always one tick away from being entirely out of control, who else would have done everything he could to take charge of the things he could-and should- control to put himself in position to excel?” - Apolo Ohno

36. “Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan” - Frank Herbert

37. “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

38. “Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?” - Gregory Peck

39. “It is good people who make good places.” - Anna Sewell

40. “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

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

42. “You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.” - Wilbert Rideau

43. “My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.” - Mira Grant

44. “Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.” - Rita Gonzalez

45. “I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves” - Pablo Tusset

46. “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

47. “The right attitude is everything!” - Lorii Myers

48. “Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.” - Julie Andrews Edwards

49. “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

50. “Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.” - Rodolfo Costa

51. “I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores” - Adriana Trigiani

52. “Coercing attitude drains your strength.” - Toba Beta

53. “Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.” - T.F. Hodge

54. “But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.” - Deb Caletti

55. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” - Shannon L. Alder

56. “I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.” - Pat Conroy

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

58. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.” - Criss Jami

59. “When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.” - Criss Jami

60. “Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.” - Criss Jami

61. “It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.” - Conan O'Brien

62. “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

63. “Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.” - Bud Wilkinson

64. “No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.” - C. JoyBell C.

65. “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

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

67. “In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.” - Jeff Greenfield

68. “Segala aturan dan beban itu memang disengaja. Itu sudah merupakan paket, agar tingkah laku jadi selalu laras dan terkendali. Tekanan adalah juga kendali.” - Putu Wijaya

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

70. “Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.” - William Shakespeare

71. “Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.” - Richard Lovelace

72. “You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.” - Tony Dungy

73. “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

74. “How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.” - Stephen R. Covey

75. “He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.” - Karen Marie Moning

76. “Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.” - Asa Don Brown

77. “Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.” - Asa Don Brown

78. “Are you seeking to be offended?” - Asa Don Brown

79. “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

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

81. “The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” - Michael Lewis

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

83. “Real change requires you to change your behavior-not just your attitude.” - Phil Stutz

84. “The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.” - Deborah Day

85. “A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.” - Deborah Day

86. “I is for Integrity, be honest with yourself and others.” - Lucas Remmerswaal

87. “Think outside the square. Think for yourself don't just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.” - Lucas Remmerswaal

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

89. “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

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

91. “Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives....gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down... hope it won't screw-up me again....Something beyond love...” - Atul Purohit

92. “Attitude is 100% under your control – (yours to choose, use or lose, as they say)Happiness, fulfillment and satisfaction in a life ALWAYS and ONLY come as a consequence of some other activity. That is you don’t just create ‘happy’ or ‘satisfied’ – you have to be doing something with your life that as a byproduct creates these states.That’s it.Told you it was simple.Alright, I admit, writing about how to create a ‘successful life’ is easy – because to create something out of your life is 99.9% Mental Focus and 50% ( as Yogi Berra would say and .01% for those of you who are paying attention) -knowing how to get the result and doing it.Writing about it is easy; it’s the doing that’s hard.” - martin gover

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

94. “Set forth no limits, keep in mind that your potential is boundless.” - Sal Martinez

95. “A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.” - Sal Martinez

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

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

98. “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

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

100. “She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.” - Jackson Burnett

101. “And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.” - Stacey Kade

102. “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

103. “Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.” - Dr Roopleen

104. “Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.” - Abbi Glines

105. “Watu hawaheshimu wewe ni nani au unatoka wapi. Wanaheshimu nguvu ya matendo yako.” - Enock Maregesi

106. “People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have magic in themselves experience magic at the grocery store. The principle is simple: fun, joy, and happiness, are something we bring to life, not something life, circumstance, or situation bring to us. There are truly no magic kingdoms, only magic people. Fun, joy and happiness are choices, orientations, approaches, attitudes, a way of living in the world, not the world itself...” - David W. Jones

107. “A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” - Tom Stoppard

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

109. “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

110. “If you think training is hard...try losing.” - Davee Jones

111. “It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.” - Orrin Woodward

112. “Your Majesty, I'm afraid everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong," said Major Sir Michael Parker, an impresario for royal events with an expertise in pyrotechnics. "Oh good, what fun!" she replied with a smile.” - Sally Bedell Smith

113. “Gratitude leads to a good attitude” - Habeeb Akande

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

115. “In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.” - Rick Warren

116. “God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.” - Rick Warren

117. “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

118. “Never make a decision while in the state of anger.” - Abdullah

119. “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

120. “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

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

122. “Embracing an attitude of gratitude is nourishing to the soul. When we allow ourselves to be engulfed in gratitude, this abundant soul nourishment overflows to your relationships, careers, and day to day lives. Act in gratitude today… If you are grateful to those you love, show them. If you are grateful to those who have helped you, show them. If you are grateful to your creator, to your family, to your friends, and you want it to be known, let it be shown!” - Steve Maraboli

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

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

125. “Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.” - Doris Kearns Goodwin

126. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” - Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

128. “When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.” - Charles R. Swindoll