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It is often said that the attitude of a person determines his altitude. However cliched that may sound, the truth in that statement is undeniable. A man who has conceded defeat can’t be led to victory, and a man who is bent upon wining is not easy to defeat. Here are a few quotes that will remind you of the importance of attitude if, and when, you are about to neglect it.

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.
Charles Simmons

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It’s all how you look at it.
J. Kenfield Morley

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Unknown

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
Demosthenes

Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Abraham Maslow