Motivational Quotes: Attitude
Posted: Monday, March 24, 2008
by Jeff Brown
Inner Projection
Don't let these "believers" fool you. It's not as easy as a statement to acquire and then maintain a productive attitude. It takes considerable experience, work, and time to find where your head needs to be in order to obtain those things that you find of great merit in your life and to bring them into the lives of those you affect around you (family, friends, strangers) and lives to come (posterity).
But attitude does require dedication and effort. It is of great importance, for all your repeating thoughts create ideas, create actions, which over time creates character. And if you allow too many negative, improper, incorrect thoughts to dominate you will not succeed. It is here where most fall. But it is more than mere thought or self-focused thought that brings out our best. I'll let my friend Morpheus instruct.
Morpheus : I'm trying to free your mind, Neo...but I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it....Tank, load the jump program.
Neo straightens as the dojo dissolves like a curtain lifting, leaving the two men now standing on a building rooftop in a city skyline.
Morpheus turns to Neo, his long coat flapping in the wind.
Morpheus : You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear...doubt...and disbelief. Free your mind...
Morpheus spins, running hard at the edge of the rooftop. And jumps. He sails through the air, his coat billowing out behind him like a cape -
He somersaults once and lands on the rooftop some 100 feet away.
Neo : Woah.
Yes, "woah." It is in the believing where we gain the most. Henry Ford said it best: "If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right!"
He would understand what Morpheus has to say. But as I said before there is more. Let's take a look at Neo's progression for explanation. Here he goes to the Oracle to see if he is "the one."
Oracle : But you already know what I'm going to tell you.
Neo : I'm not The One..... he looks sort of disappointed
Oracle : Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something...
If Neo had said he was the one, then the Oracle would have told him, "Yes, you are."
At certain times it's evident that he does have superior capabilities, but there are two significant incidents early on, points of demarcation, where he does as Morpheus instructs, and he overcomes doubt, fear, and worry. But it only occurs when his focus is away from the self and on the lives of others. Only when Morpheus and Trinity's lives are on the line does he excel and exceed any superior ability previously shown. Only in a forgetting of the self to the betterment, even the saving of, others does Neo--and you and I--obtain greatness. It is here where real attitude, the ability to maintain it through the thickest thick and thinest thin, takes place.
If you can't find motivation, an ability to change yourself, your attitude, for not only the better but the best, then look to the needs of the other. Therein you will find the answers you've always sought. God bless.
Attitude:
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."--Maya Angelou
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."--Jim Rohn
"A positive mental attitude combined with definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement."--Napoleon Hill
"Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge."--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right!"--Henry Ford
"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."--Claude M. Bristol
"Optimism is an intellectual choice."--Diana Schneider
"Optimism is that which leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."--Helen Keller
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."--Vince Lombardi
"Is it any coincidence then that the most incredibly successful people have the most confident and positive attitudes? Many people think that positive attitude is a by-product of having achieved wealth and success. In my experience I have found that this attitude was more often the reason for and not the result of success."--Mark A. Crouch Brian Tracy
"You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear."--Robert H. Shuller
"Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will."--Norman Vincent Peale
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."--Sir Winston Churchill
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."--Helen Keller
"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself."--Carolyn Warner
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."--Winston Churchill
"Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance."--John Maxwell
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."--Dale Carnegie
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."--Earl Nightingale
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances."--Martha Washington
"The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things."--Norman Vincent Peale
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."--Helen Keller
"Ask yourself, 'How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'As long as it takes.'"--Jim Rohn
"Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions."--Mark Twain
"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing."--Samuel Goldwyn
"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
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"The greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."--Steve Biko
"So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done."--Marian Wright Edelman
"The attitudes of your friends are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down."--Alexander Lockhart
"If your friends attitudes bring you down, get new friends. If your new friends attitudes bring you down, get rid of your friends and get to work. Eventually your best friends will find you as you succeed in doing what you came to this earth to do." Jeffrey P Brown
"When people are highly motivated, it's easy to accomplish the impossible. And when they're not, it's impossible to accomplish the easy."--Bob Collings
"The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."--Sir Alexander Paterson
"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip."--Zig Ziglar
"Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."--Watterson Lowe
"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."--Og Mandino
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."--John Updike
"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself."--Brian Tracey
"Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently."--Zig Ziglar
"You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up."--Jesse Jackson
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."--Barbara De Angelis
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."--Zig Ziglar
"He who angers you conquers you."--Elizabeth Kenny
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."-Buddha
"No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test."--Jim Rohn
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."--Chinese proverb
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Wow! Wow! and . . . did I say wow! I love the quotes, but better, I love what you've written here. Some very nice, insightful writing. Well done. Well said. Thanks!
