Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

John C. Maxwell

Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

John C. Maxwell

You are only an attitude away from success!

John C. Maxwell

Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

John C. Maxwell

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

John C. Maxwell

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

John C. Maxwell

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

John C. Maxwell

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

John C. Maxwell

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

John C. Maxwell

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

John C. Maxwell

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

John C. Maxwell

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

John C. Maxwell

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

John C. Maxwell

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

John C. Maxwell

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

John C. Maxwell

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

Jack Welch

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

Jack Welch

Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.

Harvey Fierstein

To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Harvey Mackay

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

Harvey Mackay

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

Harvey Mackay

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

The environment and attitude on both sides are much better than they were two years ago.

The entire coaching staff is trying to get the winning attitude going right now. We are putting it into their ears.

The guys that are on this team have put a lot of time and money into this sport, and they didn't want to give it up. These are boys who just like to go out there and play tennis. I hope their attitude rubs off on the younger players in town.

Brian Smith

The guys have played with the attitude (that) nobody really respects them and nobody really thinks they can win. We don't mind playing the underdog role and I think there's a lot of people that thought we were the underdog at the 4 seed and we shouldn't have been seeded fourth, and that's fine. Those are people's opinions, but we've won 16 of our last 18 games right now and we're just on a roll.

James Lane Allen

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

Joe Flaherty

I havent watched Mad TV a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

Eric Ludy

We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.

Eric Davis

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

Emma Goldman

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.