Quotes About Attitude

I can teach you even if you hate me, or if you despise the lessons. I can teach you if you are bored, or lazy or stupid. But I can't teach you if you're afraid to speak to me. At least, not the way I want to teach you. And I can't teach you if you decide this is something you'd rather not learn.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.

Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.

once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

if I fret about it, I shall have pre-judged myself to failure.

In a softer voice, I added, "And self-pitying tales of woe always bore me

When you can either laugh or cry, you might as well laugh

I'm proud of you. It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it. Be proud of yourself.

You are ill? No. Just Stupid. Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the power to accept anything and move on.

You dance?" "I think that might be overly optimistic," he said. "I do something. I'll try not to hurt you.

Isn't he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

with Kurt Striker. He was just too damn male for his own good. Or her own. He'd

Because you're a suspicious bitch.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

You're a terrible cook, Daniel. I know, he replied, But it's the effort that counts. I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

I do high heels better post-caffeine.

We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.

I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.

Not true, I got macular degeneration." Mrs. Teichner winked. "Or maybe I'm just a degenerate!