Positive Attitude Quotes for Writers, Freelancers and just about anyone else.

All of us need a little lift now and again. We may have days when we are being less productive than we want or need to be. There may be times when our self-esteem is feeling low.

Reading the quotes of others won't turn everything around for us in an instant. But sometimes we can read what others have said or felt, and we feel a flicker of recognition, we smile, we find a little extra strength inside.

Scroll down and you will see I have divided the various quotes into three sections: Productivity & Time Management, Self-Esteem and Writing.

Positive attitude quotes on Productivity & Time Management

"Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you."

- John Dryden

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."

- Lee Iacocca

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

- Josh Billings

"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"

- Anthony Robbins

"In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking."

- Sir John Lubbock

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

- John F. Kennedy

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Positive attitude quotes on Self-Esteem

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."

- Sam Walton

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

- Jim Rohn

"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."

- John Milton

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

- Albert Einstein

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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Positive attitude quotes on Writing

"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading."

- William Zinsser

"If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."