170 Motivational Attitude Quotes

Following is our list of motivational attitude quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about inspirational attitude.

Quick Jump To

Famous Motivational Attitude Quotes

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

Your attitude determines your aptitude! — Emmitt Smith

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one - Wayne Dyer

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one — Wayne Dyer

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. — Brian Tracy

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude. — Lou Holtz

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious. — Zig Ziglar

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement. — Napoleon Hill

Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. — Mike Ditka

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. - Milton H. Erickson

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. — William James

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. - Denis Waitley

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. - Zig Ziglar

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley

Your attitude is more important that your aptitude. — Zig Ziglar

Short Motivational Attitude Quotes

  • A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. — Aristotle
  • Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation. — Barbara Johnson
  • The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure. — Peyton Manning
  • Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. — Eric Butterworth
  • Better motivated on the wrong thing than unmotivated on the right thing. — Naval Ravikant
  • Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. — Norman Ralph Augustine
  • They say your attitude determines your latitude. — Kanye West
  • Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun

Motivational Attitude Image Quotes

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Paul Tournier quote

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier

Motivational attitude quote You must do the things you think you cannot do.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. - Jim Rohn quote

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. — Jim Rohn

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - John C. Maxwell quote

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. — John C. Maxwell

If you think you can't, you're right. - Carol Bartz quote

If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz

Motivational attitude quote Pain is temporary, giving up is forever.
Pain is temporary, giving up is forever.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. - William Bennett quote

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. — William Bennett

Motivational attitude quote Big thinking, followed by little doing, results in a big waste of time.
Big thinking, followed by little doing, results in a big waste of time.

Powerful Motivational Attitude Quotes

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary". — Unknown Author

Motivational attitude quote Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl

Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. — Robert H. Schuller

Always choose attitude over experience. Always. — Barbara Corcoran

When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence. — Hal Elrod

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element. — Ken Robinson

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life. — Hal Elrod

Inspirational Attitude Quotes

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. — A. A. Milne

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky. — Rabindranath Tagore

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck

You never fail until you stop trying. — Albert Einstein

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. - Serena Williams

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams

Positive Motivation Quotes

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley

Motivational Work Quotes

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin

We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama

What gets measured gets managed. — Peter Drucker

Motivational Success Quotes

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. - Stephen Curry

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. — T. D. Jakes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. — Chandra Shekhar Azad

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. - Zig Ziglar

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar

Motivational Coaching Quotes

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman

To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez

Management Motivation Quotes

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. — Jim Lovell

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. — Colin Powell

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words. — Henry Mintzberg

If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external. — Stephen Covey

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. - Paul Stanley

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley

Be the change you want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading. — Mark Gonzales

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. — Louise Bourgeois

Build what you want to see in the world. — Jack Dorsey

Life Motivation Quotes

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise! — Maya Angelou

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing? — Kai Greene

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Motivational Business Quotes

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. — Mark Zuckerberg

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. - Jim Rohn

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump

Work Motivation Quotes

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein

I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable

People Writing About Motivational Attitude

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar
quotes on success, leadership and learning

766 13309
Read quotes by Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz
quotes on winning, leadership and osu

217 4717
Read quotes by Emmitt Smith

Emmitt Smith
quotes on goals

49 479
Read quotes by Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer
quotes on life, peace and love

1072 10522
Read quotes by Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy
quotes on goals, leadership and excellence

787 8444
Read quotes by Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill
quotes on success, mastermind and love

719 11159

More Motivational Attitude Quotes

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi

Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. — Wayne Dyer

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. — Muhammad Ali

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked. — Viola Spolin

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. — Swami Vivekananda

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

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whenever you fall, pick something up. — Oswald Avery

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

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching. — Patrick Roy

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'. — Robert H. Schuller

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. — Haruki Murakami

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations. — Shakti Gawain

Faith is expectancy, a mental attitude that sees the invisible, believes in the incredible, and receives the impossible. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. — James Allen

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must. — Mary Kay Ash

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. — Bruce Lee

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. — Harry Sinden

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes. — Scott Tinley

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. — Walter Dill Scott

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. — Richard DeVos

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. — Eddie Rickenbacker

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of motivational attitude quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about motivational attitude to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of motivational attitude quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage