Quotes About Attitude

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

Therefore, it is possible to attach this pleasant feeling, this positive attitude, to anything (political statements being only an example) that is closely associated with good food.

our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

See, Matt, there's two kinds of people," he went on. "And the difference is in how they see themselves. One guy says to himself, 'I'm the boss of circumstances.' The other guy says, 'I'm the victim of circumstances.'...And you know what?...They're both right.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.