Quotes About Attitude

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.

This judge has a chip on her shoulder the size of the whole goddamned courthouse.

Ketika kau hanya memiliki palu, semuanya tampak seperti paku

were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. Once, at a neighborhood dinner party, Lacy had asked him what happened if you had no expectations. You couldn't divide by zero. Did that mean if you just let yourself roll with all of life's punches, you could never be happy?

Sabía que no era lo mismo algo que te hiciera feliz o algo que no te hiciera desgraciado. El truco estaba en autoconvencerse de que eran una sola cosa.

It didn't matter if they were black or white or Mexican, they all grew up with a sense of entitlement that was sickening. Everybody owed them something. They assumed they could talk to the law the same way they talked to their friends because the world had gone soft and they knew it. Everything was tolerated because nobody was at fault.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Money doesn't have beliefs about you. You have beliefs about money. —Dr. Joe Vitale

You have two ways to live your life," Dr. Hew

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes

Act the part and you will become the part," and "Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

hay poca diferencia entre el cristiano y el no cristiano en lo que pensamos y creemos, pronto habrá poca diferencia en como vivimos.

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

I tend to be a bitch when it's hot.

This whole time, I thought it was some kind of prophecy. Like I was special, unique, and the universe had picked me for some reason. But that's not really true. It's like these cards. You get what you're dealt, but it's how you play them that matters.

For him, petulance was a pastime.

Na mi?o?? bosk?, nie histeryzuj! - odburkn??a. - Po prostu umieram, koniec kropka.

All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves.

A slave is one who has to serve, while a servant is one who lives to serve.

Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

Suddenly, when the run itself is the goal, there are no more bad runs. Suddenly it doesn't matter if we don't finish within our goal time—or don't finish at all. What matters is that we tried, that we enjoyed the process. What matters is that we got out there.

Whenever I look at Edna O'Brien," continued Mr. Denby-Denby, "I get the impression that she wants to put every man she meets across her knee and give them a good spanking until they show her the proper respect. Oh, to be the bare bottom beneath that alabaster palm!