Quotes About Attitude

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

Attitude is something that comes to your rescue when you're looking for help from external sources.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say 'Here I am' and those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are.

The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.

Paige cleared her throat. "Hey, Taylor?" "What?" she snapped. "Um...he...maybe he can help us?" "He doesn't seem very helpful, " Taylor said grumpily.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat in the back.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

Don't take your bad shots home with you.