Quotes About Attitude

I want to ask her about the swim itself, the day and everything that happened, but she shrugs it off. The swim didn't matter so much, she says. That's not the hard part, the part she's proud of. She's proud of the training.

I don't like you, Debbie snarled. You're cocky and arrogant. You don't have to like me, Steve retorted. This isn't a popularity contest. It's a matter of life and death.

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Presently she said: "It's none of my business, Nick, but what do people think of me?" "You're like everybody else: some people like you, some people don't, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

People who insist on being addressed as "doctor" because they have Ph.D.'s, as if these degrees represent an important achievement, rather than a reluctance to leave college;

Some of my close friends could easily be deceased; this would not have a serious effect on our relationship.

I realize I am generalizing here, but, as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

What, exactly, do I mean by the term weenie music? I mean "The kind of sniveling, pouty, hypersensitive, self-absorbed song, usually performed by males, that makes you want to pick up the singer by his pencil neck and shake him until he stops.

Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately.

This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on.

but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.

Ceasing negative imaging will always cause your

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. —O. H. Mowrer

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.

Thoughts equal creation: If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad), that speeds the creation"; "You attract your dominant thoughts. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it"; and "Positive attitude can even overcome serious diseases like diabetes, arthritis, and heart conditions.

It's sad but true. Most people who just "go with the flow" wind up complaining about where they "floated." They go around saying life is not fair. Well, I disagree. Life is totally fair. You get what you go for. Go for nothing and you get nothing. Go for something and, even if you miss your main goal, you might still achieve a lot of good stuff along the way.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.  

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

It's like Mark Twain said, everybody complains about the weather, but no one ever does a damn thing about it.