Quotes About Attitude

He was not good looking, by any means, nor was he tall but these conditions were not troubling to him. Physical flaws were significant only to those with egos.

Either find a solution to your problem, or stop considering it a problem.

Well, to the matter at hand," Westerfield said. "I was pretty surprised the whole morass rose as high as it did." He caught that mixed metaphor, at least, and hesitated. Then: "A U.S. senator. Hm." His voice and attitude continued to be as irritating as I remembered from the last time we met. Well, every time we'd met. I

The English are the biggest snobs on earth Harry.

I should have prepared you for a brand of snobbery that no other nation on earth can emulate.

but he still wasn't sure how to respond to the English obsession with the weather.

He recalled Old Jack's words after he'd scored a century at Lord's: anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.

anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.

The English are the biggest snobs on earth, and most of the time without reason. The lesser the talent, the bigger the snob, in my experience. It's the only way the so

When this meanness happens in you, you become your own worst stressor. No matter how bad the situation is, your mean attitude amplifies and adds to your misery, usually through the addition of criticism, judgment, and blame.

Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.

I mean, six years ago my electricity's being cut off and my car's getting repossessed and I'm being evicted from my apartment, and now I'm all Yeah, havin' dinner with Rudy in the Hamptons, what of it?

Yeah, I'm over forty, flighty, and fluffy- I'd say I'm not ideal bouncer material.

We aren't happy by accident. This is a conscious choice, one that takes daily action.

If I identify with anything, it's being an American, which is why I despise how badly we've splintered as a country. The divisions between us aren't new, but the ways we deal with them are. We've lost the social norm of civility. I suspect what's changed is the attitude that we're all in this together. Now it's a me-against-you mentality, and we've turned into a country of aggressively poor losers and bombastic, graceless winners.

if you're going to be a jerk about something, make sure you're funny.

Hang out with people who are living on purpose, who meet their challenges with a step aside, suckers attitude, who are dating super awesome people, making exactly the kind of money they want to be making (or working toward it) or taking the kinds of vacations they, and you, want to be taking, and you'll not only see what's possible for you

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.

You can either be angry or be a martyr, or you can say, 'You've got lemons? Let's make lemonade.

You can change everything about your external environment in search of a good life. You can move to a different city, change your job, and even dress more professionally. But if you don't change the way you think and your fundamental view of the world, the chances of you maintaining a well-lived life for long are slim.

Arvid says, "Darling, you must never become accustomed to the extraordinary and outrageous. If you do, little by little, you'll learn to accept anything.

Rita could find fault with a twenty-one-gun salute in her honor. "Too noisy," she'd complain. "All that gun powdah makes me cough." Bernice, on the other hand, was overjoyed when a salesman from the cremation place informed her that her ashes would weigh about six pounds. "Thin at last!" she shrieked.

Real life doesn't have to suck.

You're planning on being disappointed, you'd be disappointed if you weren't disappointed, your whole world view depends on men disappointing you. Well, that's just cowardly.