Quotes About Attitude

Of Bryan, it might be said that he was candid about his wife and uncomplaining. He treated her offhandedly, as he might treat bad weather.

She has a narrow mouth, cast down at the corners, weighted there by the sourness of knowledge.

Could be worse!

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.

We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

Apparently, according to the criterion of consistency across targets, a prejudiced personality does indeed exist. Prejudice appeared to be less an attitude specific to one group than a general way of thinking about those who are different.

The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom. Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place

we all have own choice in life, I choose to be positive like a sunshine.

131: My heart is not proud, G. I am never haughty. Except maybe now, when I'm explaining how very humble I am.

If you're in a constant state of Self-Righteous Angry Victim, you're fucked. It's over. You're not a victim. So knock it off.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.