Quotes About Attitude

Further along" is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

But he was sullen about it, with the predictable attitude of someone who has been right—at all costs. And, therefore, wonders if he was wrong.

He seemed only slightly intimidated by my muscles; he had an arrogance larger than most people's hearts and minds.

Some days you get the bear...

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.

Impossible is for the unwilling

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I said a lot of things sarcastically that summer; that was my sarcastic summer

If you're not happy, the jerks win.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Like poles on tightropes, temperament makes the difference between slips and safe arrivals.

Disco sucks? You never heard that from me.

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.