Quotes About Attitude

You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.

Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As I get older the world gets colder. That's a fact.

Joe doesn't subscribe to the theory that we get the luck we deserve. Fairness is a hair color, not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

Festinger was the intellectually intense discoverer of "cognitive dissonance," the idea that when a personal belief is challenged by new information, we tend to ignore the new information in order to reduce mental conflict.

on death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession—toying with death even while fixating upon it.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

I met an immortal humani once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Aoife the Shadows

He'd met Dee briefly and didn't like him; he was one of those arrogant European immortals who thought they were better than anyone else, just because they were older than the United States.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Cynicism is romanticism turned sour.

The answer is simple: it's not the world that is boring and repetitive, it's your mind that is boring and repetitive. Your

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

Here's what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they're going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

It must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why