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Quotes About Attitude

It would have been better if you'd been guilty in a quiet way, rather than be innocent so loud.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
~ Patrick Swayze
Hex had forgone his dark blue trenchcoat in favor of a short, black leather jacket. He was wearing a t-shirt that said "I saved the Earth and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Hex
~ Unknown
Attitude aside, a man in a five–hundred–dollar suit, no matter how wrinkled or soiled, does not take to street life nearly as easily as a fish takes to smog. First
~ Unknown
Things had to be bad when I was not only conversing with myself, but giving me attitude.
~ Unknown
Jeanie's the type who is only wearing black until they come up with something darker.
~ Unknown
Just as we throw out our garbage, we need to cast out thoughts that are trashy.
~ Unknown
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.
~ Unknown
I'm an intelligent pessimist, a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but i'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.
~ Paul Auster
I would not go so far as to say that he was a good person … but Boris had his own set of rules and he stuck to them. Unlike everyone else I had met here, he managed to flat above his circumstances … It was as if he had imagined every possibility in advance, and therefore he was never surprised by what happened. Inherent in his attitude was a pessimism so deep, so devastating, so fully in tune with the facts, that it actually made him cheerful.
~ Paul Auster
Pangloss is an idiot optimist, and I'm an intelligent pessimist, meaning a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but I'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.
~ Paul Auster
Marse Compton hadn't aged but curdled like stagnant milk. His white arrogance had piled and thickened, casting its sour odor wherever he went.
~ Paul Beatty
A winner never whines.
~ Paul Brown
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.
~ Paul Brunton
Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
~ Unknown
The never-angered person is morally deficient.
~ Paul Copan
If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.
~ Paul David Tripp
you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.
~ Paul David Tripp
If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.
~ Paul David Tripp
Change begins at the level of the heart.
~ Paul David Tripp
Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.
~ Paul David Tripp
when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.
~ Paul David Tripp
Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.
~ Paul David Tripp
How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?
~ Paul David Tripp