Quotes About Attitude

She didn't want to be miserable; no one wanted to be miserable. There were times when you just couldn't help it.

His view of human nature is more jaundiced (I think that is the word) than mine.

Old people needn't think they deserved respect just because they were old.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires SPIRIT. It's

the modern generation being flippant and superficial. He says that we are losing the old ideals of earnest endeavour and true scholarship; and particularly is this falling-off noticeable in our disrespectful attitude towards organized authority. We no longer pay a seemly deference to our superiors. I

Non sono le grandi disgrazie della vita che esigono forza di carattere da noi. Chiunque può fronteggiare una grave crisi e rimettersi in piedi con coraggio dopo una tragedia, ma per sopportare le piccole noie quotidiane con il sorriso sulle labbra, ecco, per quello penso che ci voglia molto coraggio e determinazione!

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

It's a relief not having to thank Somebody for every mouthful you eat. (I dare say I'm blasphemous; but you'd be, too, if you'd offered as much obligatory thanks as I have.)

Snooty high heels.

Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

A thinking worker is bad business.

My mother had a philosophy that guided her through many a rough time. 'Only worry when you can do something about it--whatever it is. Then it's not worry, it's thinking things through, trying to decide what's best. When there's nothing you can do, it's just plain worry, and it's pointless and self-destructive.

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73)

The proper monitoring attitude is not to be distrustful, but instead, to show interest in their work.

Don't let life's events determine your attitude, let your attitude determine your life..

I think they'll get better a lot faster if we don't spend so much time moping.

Nothing will cost you more in life than a predetermined belief that things aren't going to work out.

Where they lived, being known by this label [uppity] meant that you thought you were better than everyone else around you. That you deserved more, and that given the opportunity, you would leave this place behind without a second thought. There was shame in thinking like that.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.