Top 100 Attitude Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Choices Quotes

2. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes

3. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Being Strong Quotes

4. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Change Quotes

5. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

6. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Change Quotes

7. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Lou Holtz

8. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.”

— David Brinkley

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Funny Quotes

9. “Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes

10. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

11. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Growth Quotes, Personal Growth and Development Quotes

12. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

— Scott Hamilton

13. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Spiritual Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Quotes About Growing Up

14. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, Witty Quotes

15. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

Also featured in: Father's Day Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Family Quotes

16. “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

— William James

Also featured in: Personal Growth and Development Quotes

17. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Personal Growth and Development Quotes

18. “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Being Strong Quotes

19. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Personal Growth and Development Quotes

20. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

— William James

Also featured in: Personal Growth and Development Quotes

21. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

22. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Running Quotes, Moving On Quotes

23. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes

24. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Karma Quotes

25. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

26. “Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

27. “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes

28. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes

29. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Graduation Quotes

30. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

— Henri Matisse

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

31. “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin

Also featured in: Spiritual Quotes

32. “A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

— Tom Stoppard

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Health Quotes

33. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Ambition Quotes, Character Quotes

34. “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”

— Irving Berlin

35. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Graduation Quotes

36. “Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes

37. “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”

— Hans Selye

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Stress Quotes

38. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

— Arthur Rubinstein

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes

39. “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”

— Patricia Neal

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

40. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Positive Quotes

41. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

42. “A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

43. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes

44. “Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control...”

— Tim Tebow

45. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

46. “Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Action Quotes

47. “They did not know it was impossible so they did it.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Law Of Attraction Quotes

48. “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

Also featured in: Depression Quotes

49. “Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Action Quotes

50. “Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Quotes About Skills, MMA Quotes