Quotes About Attitude

He put on his silk shirts and his gators to go out and do his thing, you know?

how much he'd changed—his whole demeanor and mentality, outwardly and inwardly. He was clean-cut. Wearing glasses. Carrying himself with dignity, like a real man should.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

There is one kind of man worse than a boastful man: a complaining one.

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

No es una casualidad que los Sufis piensen que pueden conectarse de forma más constructiva con personas que están bien integradas en el mundo, además de tener objetivos superiores, y que aquellas que adoptan una actitud razonable hacia la vida y la sociedad tal como la conocemos pueden por lo general absorber muy bien las enseñanzas Sufis

Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to.

Si eres "humilde", puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas superiores.

Pero el mundo mismo, así como cualquier actitud especial, apropiadamente comprendida, constituye la escuela Sufi.

Desafortunado Considérate desafortunado únicamente si comienzas a fabricar ataúdes y la gente deja de morir.

No trates de ser humilde: aprende la humildad.

Hay un dicho que afirma que, según la mentalidad de una persona, incluso un ángel podría parecerle un demonio.

the Sufi attitude is: 'Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me'.

la actitud Sufi es: "Que la auténtica verdad, cualquiera que fuere, me sea revelada

Si alguien dice: "no seas codicioso, sé generoso" debes interpretar internamente que así desarrollarás una codicia por la generosidad.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Hay un tipo de hombre peor que un hombre jactancioso: uno que se queja.

If you are mean, practise generosity as a corrective, not as a virtue.