Quotes About Attitude

I try to approach every day with hands that are open, not grasping.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

The attitude of exclusive professionalism (which restricts the label of professionalism to the advisor) manifests itself in a number of dysfunctional ways. It reinforces a misleading belief that the advisor's job is to solve problems rather than to help the client solve problems.

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it: That's what gets results.

The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.

Shame had an emotional power which it has lost today.

Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: "At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country, it is our right to the moral leadership of this planet." The sentence absolutely appalled all the younger Robert Kennedy advisers, who felt it smacked of just the kind of attitude which had gotten us into Vietnam. Nonetheless, despite their protests, it stayed in the speech.

He did not like Europe, which he regarded as a lesser continent, populated with people significantly greedier and more materialistic than Americans. It was a place, he noted, where

he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.

is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

How can you turn a human relationship into something regulated by the state? How can someone be expected to commit themselves at the age of 20 or 25 to another person for the rest of their lives? Who knows what lies ahead or how the two will change in their attitude to life and each other? The whole idea is crazy.

It ended with the extraordinary words, 'The entire attitude of the Gestapo throughout this affair has proven that its sole concern was to brand me as the guilty party,' and, 'I therefore challenge you to a duel with pistols.

Focus less on whether or not you win in the end. You still have to be sharp; that's why you prepare well. But once you've prepared, you need to calm down. And you can. You know why? Because it really doesn't matter that much.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I don't need to know. So neither do you." LB snorted. "Funny how the people who say that are never the ones with parachutes on.