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| 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 | |
| Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e | | Buddha | |
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| In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. - Out of my life and Thought. | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. | | Alfred Adler | |
| It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. | | William James | |
| Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away. | | Douglas MacArthur | |
| The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes | | Viktor Frankl | |
| The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others. | | Alfred Adler | |
| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. | | Plato | |
| Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. | | William James | |
| Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
