Quotes About Attitude

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

It is because of the wealth of implication which must be carried by sentences in poetry, because they must start from scratch and put the reader in possession of the entire attitude they assume, that the notion of ' sincerity ' is important, and that it is so hard to imitate a style.

Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Our disposition toward the ills which our fellow-man inflicts on us through malice or meddling is quite different from our disposition toward the ills which are inherent in the conditions of human life.

When the people whose claims we are considering are told to apply themselves to these tasks they become irritated and feel almost insulted. They

Asked about China, he marvels at its economic transformation, but laments that too many Chinese "like to gamble, and they actually believe in luck. Now, that is stupid. What you don't want to believe in is luck. You want to believe in odds.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

Those who are so far from being holy them selves, that they mock and jeer others for being so. This breastplate of righteousness is of so base an ac count with them, that they who wear it in their daily conversation do make themselves no less ridiculous to them than if they came forth in a fool's coat, or were clad in a dress contrived on purpose to move laughter.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

He that thinks he works for a song, as we say, will not sing at his work

Loneliness is the diary keeper's lover. It is not narcissism that takes them to their desk every day. And who "keeps" whom, after all? The diary is demanding; it imposes its routine; it must be chored the way one must milk a cow; and it alters your attitude toward life, which is lived, finally, only in order that it may makes it way to the private page. [From "Fifty Literary Pillars", p.35]

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

Good temper is an estate for life.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Our nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination… rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Frank's wisdom here is worth emphasizing: it is a question of the attitude one takes toward life's challenges and opportunities, both large and small. A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.