Quotes About Attitude

Because the road is rough and long, Shall we despise the skylark's song?

It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Stop resisting Him. Stop resenting Him. Stop complaining. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stop demanding what you want. Stop focusing on the outer wrappings of yourself and your circumstances. Adjust your attitude. Change your mind about things — about yourself— about others — about Him. Relax in total trust. He knows what He's doing. Unwrap the package! Let go, and look up! Let Him open the eyes of your heart. OPEN YOUR EYES!

Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

France is not England, and nowhere do they differ more than in their attitude towards intellectuals, toward women, and toward those who happen to be both.

And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is most definitely misguided," he said cheerfully.

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. My conclusion was that it's clearly worth looking into the way you deal with bad luck.

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.

Thought creates character.

We behave according to what we bring to the occasion." Our beliefs affect how we process all new things, "whether the 'thing' is a football game, a presidential candidate, Communism, or spinach.

In fact, losing feels about two times as bad to us as winning feels good to us.

The predictable pattern of blaming the bad stuff on the world and taking credit for the good stuff is by no means limited to poker or car accidents. It's everywhere.

Being in the losses is as much a state of mind as anything else. We don't see ourselves as being in the gains, even though we've gone farther than where we started, because we're not measuring ourselves by how far we are past the starting line. We're measuring ourselves by whether we're short of the finish line.

Aldous Huxley recognized, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

It doesn't take much for any of us to believe something. And once we believe it, protecting that belief guides how we treat further information relevant to the belief.

Whether it is a football game, a protest, or just about anything else, our pre-existing beliefs influence the way we experience the world. That those beliefs aren't formed in a particularly orderly way leads to all sorts of mischief in our decision-making.

Je n'estimais pas que Jean T. m'avait traitée avec mépris. Pour lui, j'étais passée de la catégorie des filles dont on ne sait pas si elles acceptent de coucher à celle des filles qui, de façon indubitable, ont déjà couché.

Dans une époque où la distinction entre les deux importait extrêmement et conditionnait l'attitude des garçons à l'égard des filles, il se montrait avant tout pragmatique, assuré en outre de ne pas me mettre enceinte puisque je l'étais déjà.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Every day is irreplaceable, so don't ruin yours by allowing the negative moods of others to pull you into their frame of mind.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I always take life with a grain of salt. . . plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.