Quotes About Attitude

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

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Sometimes, if you think you're sick, you will be.

If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

I was forced to go to a positive-thinking seminar. I couldn't stand it. So I went outside to the parking lot and let half the air out of everybody's tires. As they came out I said, "So, are your tires half-full, or half-empty?"

I know this," the Second Mate said. "A sexy girl thinks she can do anything.

We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out.

Morgan argued that the attitude of the free people of color toward the United States depended on the policy of the government toward them: "They may be made good citizens or formidable abettors of the black people.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Yo, por mi parte, no pienso tan austeramente como usted; me limito a actuar de la misma manera en que usted piensa.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves. The attitude that children thrive on is one that communicates, "You're basically a lovable, capable person. Right now there's a problem that needs attention. Once you're aware of it, you'll probably respond responsibly.

2. If attitude is so important, why bother about words? A parent's look of disgust or tone of contempt can hurt deeply. But if, in addition, a child is subjected to words like "stupid" . . . "careless" . . . "irresponsible" . . . "you'll never learn," he's doubly wounded. Somehow words have a way of lingering long and poisonously. The worst part is that children sometimes pull out

But it's how we handle the 'ordinary, everyday small stuff' that lays the groundwork for handling the 'big stuff.

Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are. Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

The people in their overwhelming majority are so feminine by nature and attitude that sober reasoning determines their thoughts and actions far less than emotion and feeling. And this sentiment is not complicated, but very simple and all of a piece. It does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way, never partially, or that kind of thing.

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.