Quotes About Attitude

SECRET #47 When life gives you a pile of poop, you're gonna get dirty—so you may as well roll with it.

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted.

To Whom It May Concern. A racist Irishman has just made me aware that I am as bigoted as he is. Please excuse me from working with people of different skin colours until I can achieve an attitude adjustment. I do not wish to be a Nazi.

They were dressed in leather like biker chicks. Serena had on platform boots, a tight-fitting motorcycle jacket, and a mini. Jimena wore studded ankle boots, a bareback leather halter top, and a hip-hugging matching skirt.

Yet here the pilots were in England, fêted and pampered by the upper echelons of society, glamorized in movies and the press, enjoying themselves in spite of any guilt they may have felt. And here were their hosts and hostesses, with their very British insouciance, acting as if there would always be an England. In one context, this attitude was infuriating; in another, it was one of Britain's greatest strengths.

We have, in fact, used the good name of England to cover up a massacre." What, O'Malley wondered, would "this dislocation between our public attitude and our private feelings" portend for Britain's future dealings with both the Poles and the Russians?

I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it.

I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

How a woman thinks is often how she lives.

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We

Feelings follow correct behaviors, not the other way around. Make right choices to honor God, and your feelings will eventually catch up. And though at first following God this way may appear to make your life harder, it actually does the exact opposite. It makes your attitude more in line with His, thus enabling you to weather whatever comes your way.

After all, how a woman thinks is often how she lives.

What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.

When you feed negativity on the inside, it's negativity that you'll exude on the outside.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.

I'd much rather run to the mall and get a new shirt than run to God and get a new attitude. I'd much rather dig into a brownie than dig into my heart. I'd much rather point the finger at other people's issues than take a peek at my own.

If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day.

And what we think about can consume us if

God is much more concerned with the attitudes of our hearts than the actual activities of our bodies on the day of Sabbath.

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point.

Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied.

It is good to be honest with God, but we must be careful that we don't become whiners. There is nothing that aggravates my heart more than to hear whining and complaining, especially from my kids. I can't help but think the Lord might feel the same way.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them. I can say to myself, "I have a choice to have destructive thoughts or constructive thoughts right now. I can wallow in what's wrong and make things worse, or I can ask God for a better perspective to help me see good even when I don't feel good.