Quotes About Attitude

Am I now going to mimic that person's bad attitude and make the situation worse, or am I going to be the person I want to be?

But we can make progress. With practice, a good attitude, and the help of a Higher Power, we can markedly reduce both the frequency and the duration of those periods when we allow others to determine the state of our emotions.

Every time we are upset, we must admit to ourselves that we have chosen to be upset, no one has made us upset.

Fox insists that, as long as we harbor a resentment toward any other person, we should not say the Lord's Prayer. We should not ask God to, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," because, by doing so, we ask God to feel toward us and to treat us the way we feel toward and treat those we resent.

I blame my emotional state on what is happening outside me rather than admitting that at every moment of every day, consciously or unconsciously, I exercise a choice as to my mood and how I am going to feel.

allow the offending person to "make" them feel bad today. Such situations result in self pity, an emotion with absolutely no redeeming social value, but which obviously feels good, at least for a brief interval, or it wouldn't be so popular.

We come to feel as we behave.

You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head.

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

I am not!" said the guy's girlfriend, who was wearing a very short skirt, very high heels and the kind of complicated hairstyle that looks like it needs blueprints and a construction crew.

Never be too amusing. An unfettered sense of humor is on the whole thought to be a good thing only for the poor - for the rich a sense of humor is a disaster.

in this life, living, there is no dignity except perhaps in laughter.

In fact, if you are generous, or have a caretaking personality, they may treat you the worst.

When I feel like exercising, I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

It is not Christianity as a whole, but Calvinist Protestantism whose attitude towards nature contradicts almost completely the Buddhist attitude.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

For George, being in a band was a passion, one to be shared with his friends. Discovering that David had an entirely different agenda was a shock. Just as striking was how unapologetic George's bandmate was—indeed, there was a kind of purity about his attitude; David's selfishness was cheerful, instinctive, almost childlike in its lack of malevolence. George was one of the first, but not the last, to hear what would become a guiding philosophy: "Numero uno, mate!

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

From the top of Mount Everest "Next time I am taking the lift."

Early people are anxious, on-time people are obsessive compulsive, and late people are hostile, or passively-aggressively hostile.

Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.