69 Attitude Quotes For Inspiration

Attitude is the lens through which we view the world, shaping our experiences and influencing our actions. Whether you’re facing challenges, celebrating successes, or simply looking for a boost in motivation, the right mindset can make all the difference. In this post, we’ve assembled a handpicked collection of 69 attitude quotes designed to inspire, uplift, and empower you. Dive in and let these words of wisdom transform your outlook and fuel your inner drive.

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

4. “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

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

6. “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

7. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. “It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.” - Ben Robertson

16. “It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.” - Epictetus

17. “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

18. “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

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

20. “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

21. “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

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

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

24. “No guts, no story.” - Chris Brady

25. “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

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

27. “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

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

29. “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

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

31. “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

32. “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho

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

34. “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

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

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

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

38. “Apa yang dikatakan orang-orang bukanlah masalah, selama aku mempertahankan perilaku yang benar.” - Lian Hearn

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

40. “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

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

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

43. “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

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

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

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

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

48. “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

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

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

51. “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

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

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

54. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” - Dr Roopleen

55. “You will never be satisfied with anything less than the highest you can attain.” - Apoorve Dubey

56. “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

57. “Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, ability, or skill. It will make or break a business, a home, a friendship, an organization. The remarkable thing is I have a choice every day of what my attitude will be. I cannot change my past. I cannot change the actions of others. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can change is attitude. Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.” - Charles R. Swindoll

58. “Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your frowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.” - Junot Diaz

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

60. “We are gods in the chrysalis.” - Dale Carnegie

61. “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

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

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

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

65. “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

66. “... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

67. “Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

68. “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

69. “Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got” - Elizabeth Grace Saunders