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Quotes About Attitude

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~ Ford Madox Ford
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just beecause I never have any trials. (Sara Crewe, A Little Princess)
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Naturally, Jessie giggled again. "She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had never felt sorry for herself; she had only felt tired and cross, because she disliked people and things so much.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say. And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef tea and gruel, you can never get rid of it
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Cose assai sorprendenti possono accadere a chi, avendo nella mente un pensiero sgradevole e scoraggiante, abbia il buonsenso di accorgersene e scacciarlo via in tempo sostituendolo con un altro pensiero piacevole e ottimista. Due cose non possono occupare contemporaneamente lo stesso posto. Là dove coltivi la rosa, ragazzo mio, Non può crescere il cardo.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let if stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say. And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She was lonely and she never knew that this loneliness had made her sour and cross towards others.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
~ Frances Hodgson-Burnett
As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect...
~ Frances Mayes
Pamela slipped her arm around Churchill's shoulders. "Try not to mind, darling. Americans don't mean to be beastly and offensive. They simply can't help it. They're like rude children playing at soldiers—they've no notion how deadly serious it all is.
~ Francine Mathews
How inappropriate,' Lila said coldly. 'Who'd ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she's going to do all night?
~ Francine Pascal
Honestly,' she said when they were out of Bruce's earshot, 'he's as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant's night off, anyway?' Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. 'Cold lobster and caviar,' she said earnestly.
~ Francine Pascal
Oooh. Barbie has a brain, huh? The smile was gone. His voice low, gravelly. Oooh. Ken has an attitude, she snapped back.
~ Francine Pascal