Quotes About Attitude

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

I never think in terms of expectations. My expectation is how to deal with bad news.

How you think matters more than what you think

success can lead to acclaim that can undermine the habits of mind that produced the success.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' An optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.

When I listened to public prayers in evangelical churches, I heard people telling God what to do, combined with thinly veiled hints on how others should behave. When

We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not "What did I get out of it?" but rather "Was God pleased with what happened?

Those who have known pain profoundly are the ones most wary of uttering the clichés about suffering. Experience with the mystery takes one beyond the realm of ideas and produces finally a muteness or at least a reticence to express in words the solace that can only be expressed by an attitude of union with the sufferer. JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

The medical community now freely admits that in a larger sense a person's attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering.

The king smiled at Anne. She dropped him a curtsy straight down, like a bucket in a well, head up, and a small challenging smile on her lips. The king was not taken, he liked easy women, he liked smiling women. He did not like women who fixed him with a dark challenging gaze.

You can always tell a pretty girl by the way she walks. A pretty girl walks like she owns the world.

You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. —DR. PHIL MCGRAW

In the meantime, let's agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it's yours.

Karen made a face. Oh, c'mon. I don't think so, I said. Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley, said Brian, laughing at me. I could hardly stand him. You've got that right, I said, and turned away.

Occidental que je suis dans l'âme, confortablement installé sur cinquante années de prospérité écoulées depuis la fin de la guerre (avec un généreux plan Marshall pour commencer), j'ai tendance à regarder ces bizarreries sans indulgence. Qu'attend-on pour réparer la chaussée, les routes, pour réparer en général ? (p. 32)

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.