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Management Quotes: Attitude Management

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. --William James
• Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. --Norman Vincent Peale
• Attitude -- not aptitude -- determines your altitude. --Anonymous
• A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. --Anonymous
• "If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." -- Maya Angelou
• When you change your patterns of thinking, you change the way you feel about yourself, about others, and about the world. And changing the way you feel enables you to deal more productively with your problems and burdens and to take actions necessary to improve your life. --Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf 
• "Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success." -- Dr. Joyce (Diane Bauer) Brothers 
• "The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!" -- Dennis S. Brown
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -- Albert Einstein
• To succeed at anything, you need to have the right attitude, a POSITIVE one! If you tend to be negative, turn yourself around. Be positive!
• A man can not be comfortable without his own approval. --Mark Twain
• A new attitude invariably creates a new result. --Unknown
• A positive attitude is a person's passport to a better tomorrow. --Anonymous
• Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. --Norman Cousins
• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. --Dr. Joyce Brothers
• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities always see them, for they re always there. --Norman Vincent Peale
• When I hire someone new, the most important thing I look for is attitude, everything else can be learned on the job - Med Jones
• Big thinking precedes big achievement. --Wilferd A. Peterson
• Clear your mind of can't. --Samuel Johnson
• Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. --Roger Staubach
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. --Mark Twain
• Everyone you meet knows something you don't know. Be willing to learn from them. --Unknown
• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. --Bible, Proverbs 23:7
• Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. --Dr. Robert Anthony
• Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. small people talk about other people. --Unknown
• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. --Orison Swett Marden
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. --Unknown
• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. --Norman Vincent Peale
• Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. --William Temple
• I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. --Bible, Phil 4:13
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail. --Abraham Maslow
• If we don't model what we teach, we are teaching something else. --Unknown
• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. --Unknown
• If you're not playing offense you're playing defense! --Bill Bennett
• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. --Jonathan Winters
• If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. --Mary Kay Ash
• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. --Helen Keller
• Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. --Rod Serling
• We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it... --Donald Curtis
• We judge others by their behavior but ourselves by our intentions. --Stephen Covey
• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. --Francois La Rochefoucauld
• Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses. --Arlen Price
• Work shared is halved. Joy shared is doubled. --Unknown
• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, but as the attitude you bring to life. --John Homer Miller
• "The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do."- Leo Burnett
• Heroic service does not come from policy manuals. It comes from people who care - and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude. --Valerie Oberle, VP, Disney University Guest Programs
• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. -- Zig Ziglar
• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. --Betty Ford
• Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. --Robert Schuller
• The remarkable think is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
• We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...
• Start every day with an inspiring thought. --Anonymous
• I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our Attitudes.--Charles Swindoll 
• There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people. --Mary Lou Retton
• The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. --Edwin Whipple
• The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. --Kahlil Gibran
• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. -- Vince LoExecutive Educationrdi
• They can... because they think they can. --Virgil
• Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself. --Norman Vincent Peale
• Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. --Unknown
• Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself... Nothing is impossible! --Norman Vincent Peale
• View every problem as an opportunity... --Joseph Sugarman
• The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. --Roy L. Smith
• The first step is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The second is to begin where you are. --Norman Vincent Peale
• The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church... a home.
•  com doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. --Dale Carnegie
• Search for the seed of good in every adversity. --Og Mandino
• See the things you want as already yours... think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. --Robert Collier
• Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it. --Unknown
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. --Mark Twain
• Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. --Washington Irving
• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. --Helen Keller
• Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently. --Zig Ziglar
• Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts. --Unknown
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. --Mark Twain
• Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. --Washington Irving
• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. --Helen Keller
• Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently. --Zig Ziglar
• Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts. --Unknown

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