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Quotes About Attitude

You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.
~ Unknown
The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.
~ Unknown
You can't win them all, but I can.
~ Unknown
Optimists were optimistic, pessimists pessimistic, and the in-betweens listened to the optimists one day and to the pessimists the next.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
It's not your job to be *pre-disappointed* for him, dig? You...go on and on about how big and terrible 'the world' is. Well, maybe so. But in that case, it's the world's job to be big and terrible, not yours.
~ Lionel Shriver
Por qué haces todo lo posible para que tus hijas se sientan unas tontas? —¡No es eso! Sólo intento que se sientan incultas, que no es lo mismo.
~ Lionel Shriver
She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone.
~ Lionel Shriver
But I've never met anybody whose life has taken a sudden turn for the worse who thought a reversal of fortune was just what they had coming to them.
~ Lionel Shriver
Just remember this. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.
~ Lisa Graff
But 'contentment'. Is that happiness? Or is that only resignation wearing a funny hat?
~ Unknown
We manifest what we believe, even if those beliefs trip us up and create roadblocks to personal growth. As the old adage by Henry Ford goes: Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. The goal is not to be "right" but to be whole and self-actualized.
~ Unknown
People are easier to deal with if they underestimate you.
~ Lisa Jewell
That wearing shiny shoes with bows on and rolling your eyes at other kids is not a sign of maturity, but a sign that you've missed a whole set of steps on the road to maturity.
~ Lisa Jewell
I'm a dog person at heart and got the cats only because they're easier for selfish people to look after.
~ Lisa Jewell
She pictures his face, the way his jaw clenches together when he's displeased about something, the way his fist comes down upon inanimate objects when he's annoyed, the flare of his nostrils, the entitled tilt of his chin as he surveys the object of his displeasure.
~ Lisa Jewell
Where Josie is stiff and unanimated, her mother is all expansive hand gestures and chatter. She's glamorous, too, clearly takes care of her appearance, sees herself as a woman worthy of attention and respect.
~ Lisa Jewell
I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm not short. I'm…vertically disadvantaged.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You're not suited for this Merripen. You can't hold your liquor worth a damn. And unlike people such as me, who become quite amicable when they drink, you turn into a vile-tempered troll." Leo paused considering how best to provoke him. "Liquor brings out one's true inner nature, they say.
~ Lisa Kleypas
What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?" "His posture," Hannah muttered. "What about it?" "He slouches." "He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I never get sick. Besides, I have this compulsion to take care of ailing Travises." "You would be the only one. We Travises are bad-tempered as hell when we're sick." "You're not all that nice when you're well either.
~ Lisa Kleypas
For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous.
~ Stacey Snider
I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.
~ Joe Gilgun