Quotes About Attitude

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. You draw up an X axis and a Y axis, where a positive slope represents a positive attitude, plot some points, and there you go. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

IF EVERYTHING REALLY does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. You draw up an X axis and a Y axis, where a positive slope represents a positive attitude, plot some points, and there you go. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable

To live is to suffer. To become fully human is to overcome suffering by allowing it to give us wings. Stop thinking about how your struggles are weighing you down, and start thinking, with humility, about how they can lift you up, and make you more compassionate and merciful. Changing your attitude can turn a burden into a blessing.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Instead, the key to happiness and fulfilment lies in what we would call a psychological attitude

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

I'm at the age now, when I meet a woman sixty years old, she's too young for me.

The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

While losers languish Below The Line, preparing stories that explain why past efforts went awry, winners reside Above The Line, powered by commitment and hard work.

To get Above The Line, and out of the blame game, you must climb the Steps To Accountability by adopting See It, Own It, Solve It, Do It attitudes.

When you can't control your circumstances, don't let your circumstances control you.

Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate of decorum expresses the fate of a culture's dignity, its attitude toward its animating values.)

If he was to have able pupils and helpful associates as time went on, they would have to find their way to the attitude evoked by Henri Tracol in his response to Luc Dietrich: open to Gurdjieff but psychologically free and self-possessed.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

It amazes me that those who behave rudely always expect to be treated politely.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

How, I wondered, could a fifteen-year-old boy act like this without getting his ass kicked every time he opened his mouth?

Whenever we find ourselves ensnared in negative behavior, he suggests, we should increase the amount of time, thought, and energy we direct toward positive behavior.

Vagabonding is about looking for adventure in normal life, and normal life within adventure. Vagabonding is an attitude—a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

When Spinoza in the seventeenth century used the word reason, he meant an attitude toward life in which the mind united the emotions with the ethical goals and other aspects of the "whole man." When people today use the term they almost always imply a splitting of the personality. They ask in one form or another: "Should I follow reason or give way to sensual passions and needs or be faithful to my ethical duty?