Positive Attitude Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old positive attitude quotes, positive attitude sayings, and positive attitude proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry S. Truman
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Irving Berlin
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. Jean Plaidy
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. John C. Maxwell
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. Joyce Brothers
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. Joyce Meyer
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can’t do. Joyce Meyer
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know. Kristin Armstrong
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. Mary Lou Retton
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. Matt Cameron
If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
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 is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah Winfrey
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. Robert H. Schuller
I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in. Roger Clemens
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference. Theodore Roosevelt
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
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Tom Stoppard
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W. Clement Stone
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. Walter Scott
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change Wayne Dyer
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. William James
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James
Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. Zig Ziglar