Quotes About Attitude

Beware of people who dislike cats

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

A mindset of abundance can only be guided and influenced, never forced.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

One more preference enters into the identification of type—the choice between the perceptive attitude and the judging attitude as a way of life, a method of dealing with the world around us.

In order to come to a conclusion, people use the judging attitude and have to shut off perception for the time being.

To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of history; it is an attitude found in equal measure on the right and left wings in our days, and is not reconcilable with the principles accepted by those who respect the facts.

What is a lost battle?... It is a battle one believes one has lost. ...

You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice.

é un modo comodo di vivere quello di credersi grande di una grandezza latente.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.

Friedrich Nietzsche, originator of the slogan "God is dead", reported that at times he was overcome by gratitude. This admission is most interesting, because gratitude is not a self-regarding attitude like pleasure, but an other-regarding attitude like anger. It presupposes someone to whom gratitude is owed.