Winning Attitude Quotes and Sayings

“Attitude” to me, is more important than circumstances, more important than successes or failures. What it is, is how I want to approach the world and how I want the world to approach me.

A winning attitude is not about what other people think or say, it is not in appearances, giftedness, or skill. Each and every day we have a choice, its all about how are we going to embrace the day. Do you choose success or do you just settle for the status quo.

I know that I can not change the past and I can not change how other people will act. But the one thing I can control, is my attitude. And with a little help of some extraordinary people in this Hub of inspiring quotes I share here, I can only wish that you find these words as motivational as I do in using the one thing I know I have, and that is positive attitude.

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.”
~ William James

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

"Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
~ Zig Ziglar

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."
~ Chinese Proverb

"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." ~Ancient Persian Saying

"To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
~ Ancient Proverb

"Poiché la casa è in fiamme noi stessi caldo."
"Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves."
~ Italian Proverb

"Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone."
~ Arab Proverb

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
~ Chinese proverb

Motivational Attitude

Presidential Quotes

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
~Voltaire

"Believe you can and you're half way there."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
~ John F. Kennedy

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."opportunity."
~ Harry Truman

"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle."
~ General Dwight David Eisenhower

"Jia Yu!"
~ anglnwu

"It's not the situation. . . . It's your reaction to the situation."
~ Robert Conklin

"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."
~ Paul H. Duhn

"We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
The last of his freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
~ Viktor E. Frankl

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind."
~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
~ John Wooden

"When you believe you can-you can!"
~ Maxwell Maltz

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."
~ Thaddeus Golas

"It is not the position, but the disposition."
~ J. E. Dinger

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
~ Anonymous

To respond is positive, to react is negative.
~ Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

"People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away."
~ Jim Abbott

"You'll miss 100 per cent of the shots you never take.. "
~ Wayne Gretzky

"I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
~ Walter Payton

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

"It is how you show up at the showdown that counts."
~ Homer Norton

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."
~Earl Warren

"Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man."
~ Pele

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog!"
~ Archie Griffin

"To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
~ Tony Dorsett

"What it Takes" Quotes

"Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently".
~ Zig Ziglar

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~ Victor Hugo

"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men."
~ ~ Vince Lombardi ~

"Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be." ~ Robert Collier

"Motivation is not a matter of will-power, it is a matter of want-power. " ~ Paul Karasik

"No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind." ~ Napoleon Hill

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~ Cavett Robert

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier

Lead me to a rock that is too high for me

~ Psalm 61:3 ~

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,

Still I'd like to express my thanks -

I got the sun in the morning

and the moon at night.

~ Irving Berlin ~