Quotes About Attitude

F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

It had been very well done, Ronicky decided, Blondy had acquitted himself with just the right edge to his voice. He had not been sickeningly acquiescent. Neither had he been stupidly defiant. But

I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.

Rather than attracting the unbeliever to something new and good—a community of faith and the grace of God—the church repels the outside world because of its judgmental attitude and political bickering.

We can't all be the life of the party. Some of us are quieter than others. But we can all go around with a look and attitude that says we want to be friendly. We can stay active. The worst thing you can do is withdraw from the network of friendships and acquaintanceships at home and at work. If you aren't in the network, nobody is ever going to steer anything your way.

At Arnhem, the British fielded too many gentlemen and not enough players.

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

The egoist, turning against the demands and concepts of the present, executes pitilessly the most measureless — desecration. Nothing is holy to him! It would be foolish to assert there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of — every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it out friend and be humble toward it.

The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus

An attitude of moral indifference has no connection with scientific "objectivity".

The effect of the Reformation as such was only that, as compared with the Catholic attitude, the moral emphasis on and the religious sanction of, organized worldly labor in a calling was mightily increased.

The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.

You act, and feel, not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what they are like. You have certain mental images of yourself, your world, and the people around you, and you behave as though these images were the truth, the reality, rather than the things they represent.

Learning the happiness habit, you become a master instead of a slave, or as Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

It would have been very bad," he said, "but I never allow my mind to think in that way.

Nothing can work me damage except myself," said St. Bernard.

If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy—period! Not happy "because of.

If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, 'I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not.

psychologist Daniel W. Josselyn wrote in his book Why Be Tired?:

1. All your actions, feelings, behaviors—even your abilities—are always consistent with this self-image. In short, you will "act like" the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not only this, but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts or willpower.

Positive thinking" cannot be used effectively as a patch or a crutch to the same old self-image.