145 Inspiring Attitude Quotes

In a world that constantly challenges our resilience and spirit, the power of a positive attitude cannot be underestimated. Our attitudes shape our perceptions, influence our actions, and ultimately determine our paths in life. Whether you're facing adversity, seeking motivation, or simply wanting to start your day on a high note, words of encouragement can be a beacon of light. In this collection, you will find 145 inspiring attitude quotes, each carefully selected to uplift, motivate, and empower you to embrace life's challenges with grace and optimism. Let these quotes fuel your journey towards a more positive and fulfilling life.

1. “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

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

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

4. “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” - Dale Carnegie

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. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” - Martha Washington

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

9. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” - Winston S. Churchill

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

11. “Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.” - James A. Owen

12. “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

13. “In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.” - Hilari Bell

14. “But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said. "I'm scared, too. Every time something like this happens, it scares me. But being strong doesn't get you through. Being smart does. I've beaten people and things who were stronger than I was, because they didn't use their heads, or because I used what I had better than they did. It isn't about muscle, kiddo, magical or otherwise. It's about your attitude. About your mind." She nodded slowly and said, "About doing things for the right reasons." You don't throw down like this just because you're strong enough to do it," I said. "You do it because you don't have much choice. You do it because it's unacceptable to walk away, and still live with yourself later." She stared at me for a second, and then her eyes widened. "Otherwise, you're using power for the sake of using power." I nodded. "And power tends to corrupt. It isn't hard to love using it, Molly. You've got to go in with the right attitude or…" Or the power starts using you," she said. She'd heard the argument before, but this was the first time she said the words slowly, thoughtfully, as if she'd actually understood them, instead of just parroting them back to me. Then she looked up. "That's why you do it. Why you help people. You're using the power for someone other than yourself.” - Jim Butcher

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

16. “To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.” - William Ellery Channing

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. “Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself.” - Robin Brande

21. “When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.” - Orison Swett Marden

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

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 try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.” - John Swartzwelder

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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped.In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect.” - Naomi Wolf

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

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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.” - Holly Lisle

37. “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

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

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

40. “There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.” - Judith McNaught

41. “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

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

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. “Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.” - Pablo

45. “Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.” - Lorii Myers

46. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” - Cormac McCarthy

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

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

49. “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

50. “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.” - Brian Tracy

51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

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

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

56. “I can smite you " Nick grumbled. "Anytime I like.” - Sarah Rees Brennan

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

58. “Success or failure inbusiness is caused more by mental attitude even than by mentalcapacity." Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confidentattitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—toacquire it.” - Walter Dill Scott

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

60. “I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.” - Sandra Brown

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

62. “Aun cuando mi destino externo se haya desenvuelto como sucede para todos, inevitablemente y según lo decretado por los dioses, mi vida íntima es obra propiamente mía, con sus gozos y amarguras, y soy yo, en lo personal, el responsable de la misma.” - Herman Hesse

63. “…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.” - Alan Bradley

64. “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

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

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

67. “Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” - William James

68. “Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.” - Janet Lane

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

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

71. “Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.” - Asa Don Brown

72. “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

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

74. “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

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

76. “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

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

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

79. “H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.” - Lucas Remmerswaal

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

81. “S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.” - Lucas Remmerswaal

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

83. “X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!” - Lucas Remmerswaal

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

85. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.” - Criss Jami

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

87. “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” - Ernest Hemingway

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

89. “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

90. “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

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

92. “Confidence is providence” - Habeeb Akande

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

94. “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

95. “Always ignore hateful attitude and rude behavior of the people. They are powerless without your response.” - Bushra Zarrar Rana

96. “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

97. “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

98. “To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started” - Pablo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

108. “Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.” - Shannon L. Alder

109. “We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else," rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.” - Jae Woong Kim

110. “You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.” - Dr Roopleen

111. “To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.” - Dr Roopleen

112. “It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.” - Dr Roopleen

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

114. “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

115. “Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.” - Dejan Stojanovic

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

119. “Be the person you wish to be, not who you are told to be.” - Anna Glazebrook

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

121. “The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

123. “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

124. “Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.” - Orrin Woodward

125. “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

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

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

130. “Mamma says we would be wise to remember that what goes around usually comes back around to us - the good or the bad - depending on which we dish out.” - Annette Bridges

131. “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

132. “Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.” - Louis C.K.

133. “The more I focus on the positive, the more positive my life becomes.” - Julie-Anne

134. “A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.” - Criss Jami

135. “People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.” - Myles Munroe

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

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

138. “Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.” - Bryant McGill

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

140. “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

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

142. “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

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

144. “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” - W.C. Fields

145. “It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth—all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.” - Richelle E. Goodrich