Quotes About Attitude

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si abordas cada situación como asunto de vida o muerte, morirás muchas veces (Adam Smith)

The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

Age hasn't matured you. It's made those traits that were ticks in the twenty-five-year-old into full-blown affectations in the thirty-eight-year-old.

He just likes to have fun, Papa. That's not a quality that gets you far in life.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.

We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: 'Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Cynicism is too easy, and it gets you nowhere.

BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.

In fact she knew perfectly well (Norman again), but to her everybody's name was immaterial, as indeed was everything else, their clothes, their voice, their class. She was a genuine democrat, perhaps the only one in the country.

One does try not to be an Old Git but they don't make it easy.

She said, 'He knows what I mean. Where did you get those shoes?' He said, 'They're training shoes.' She said, 'Training for what? Are you not fully qualified?' He said, 'If Jesus were alive today, Mrs Whittaker, I think you'd find these were the type of shoes he would be wearing.

Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on.

Sulking in children and the periodic cabinet member.

Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.

Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.