Rocky Balboa & Attitude Makes the Difference
Posted by Orrin Woodward on March 6, 2008
Rocky Balboa’s shares his view of life and the attitude to win!
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Do you have an attitude of victory or defeat? If we are going to make a difference in the world, we must first start with our own attitude and thinking. Here are my favoritie quotes on attitude. What is your favorite quote on attitude? God Bless, Orrin Woodward
Attitude is reframing the thinking about the events in your life to empower you towards victory, instead of disempowering you towards defeat. – Orrin Woodward
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? – Dennis and Wendy Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. – Oscar Wilde
If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one. – Cavett Robert
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. – Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day. – Author Unknown
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. – Francesca Reigler
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. – The Eagles, “Already Gone”
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. – Foster’s Law
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. – Samuel Johnson
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious. – Bill Meyer
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. – Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. – Joe Clark
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. – Abraham Lincoln
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. – William J. Bennett
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. – Anne Frank
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. – Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
Whenever you fall, pick something up. – Oswald Avery
Success is due less to ability than to zeal. – Charles Buxton
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. – Elbert Hubbard
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt… – Dorothy Day
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. – Winston Churchill
[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Dwight Eisenhower
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. – Wernher von Braun
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. – C.C. Scott
Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. – Maurice Setter
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. – Author Unknown
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. – Thomas Carlyle
Misery is a communicable disease. – Martha Graham
The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it. – Will Foley
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. – David Ambrose
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. – Hugh Downs
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – Arthur Christopher Benson
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. – Pearl Bailey
Men who never get carried away should be. – Malcolm Forbes
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
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t. – Mignon McLaughlin
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. – Author Unknown
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. – Konrad Adenauer
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. – Kenneth Clark
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. – Author Unknown
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. – G.K. Chesterton
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. – Art Linkletter
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. – Galileo Galilei
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. – Henri Frédéric Amiel
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. – Alex Karras
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein
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