Quotes About Attitude

So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward.

Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been.

We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." - Eeyore

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.

Don't blame me if it rains.

Hallo, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, as he opened the door and came out. "How are you?" "It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

it's ever so 'portant how you walk'.

Once I made the mistake of saying I enjoyed listening to Lester Young over Charlie Parker, which solicited the response: "What the hell do you know?" It was true, I only knew what I liked, but in the often too-serious jazz scene, it seems what one likes isn't valid unless backed up by a twenty-page dissertation. That attitude probably accounts for a certain percentage of jazz enthusiasts who are pedantic bores.

If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it however difficult it may be. If on the contrary you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.

Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so.

De même il suffit de penser qu'une douleur s'en va pour sentir en effet cette douleur disparaître peu à peu, et, inversement, il suffit de penser que l'on souffre pour que l'on sente immédiatement venir la souffrance. - In the same way, it is enough to think that a pain is going away to feel this pain disappearing little by little, and, conversely, it is enough to think that one is suffering for one to immediately feel the suffering coming.

The only good is knowledge, Sekhandur. The only evil is ignorance'. 'That is a saying uttered by as many fools as visionaries and an attitude that has led to damnation more than once. The last man to speak those words in my presence doomed our Legion.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

Your worst pessimist is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.