Quotes About Attitude

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Never tell your problems to anyone . . . 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.

People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they're the ones with the problem.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Charming. Charming language. Same as your father. Bad language and hating budgies go together.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist." Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass. —LOUIS SILVIE ZAMPERINI

If you give everything and you lose, so what? It's not going to put you in your grave. I walked away knowing I could handle defeat gracefully, and I had more self-esteem from that than from winning the race.

He had the look, Vega thought, the one reserved for teenaged boys, the one that says there's nothing but girls and beer and sports in the world and I am goddamn okay with that.

You can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl.

I think the difficulty with people who can't follow printed directions for knitting or anything else is that they try to understand them. They read the whole thing through and it doesn't make sense to them, so they start with a defeatist attitude.

A man who has cursed the boss all evening to his confreres is almost always a man who goes to bed feeling at peace with the world, and who wakes up ready to put out a good day's work.

She talks about men in the same amiable, unsurprised way that people talk about the weather - men are a kind of constant. a background note. They are useful objects for meaningless chatter when there is nothing else more important to talk about.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.