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Quotes About Attitude

All cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.
~ John Connolly
cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.
~ John Connolly
I disliked the attitude of those who came up from the cities to hunt—their braggadocio, their faux machismo, the unpleasant transformative effect of guns and camouflage on otherwise unremarkable men, for in my experience it was generally men who hunted in this way.
~ John Connolly
He is not bitter. Never that. Babe would have said it was not worth becoming bitter, and Babe would have been right. But he is sad, sad that they do not care as much as he does.
~ John Connolly
Dobey was all for the Second Amendment, but even at the best of times he regarded anyone who entered a restaurant, store, or public park while flaunting a gun as a cocksucker of the highest order, and that went double for Dobey's own place of business.
~ John Connolly
El jefe de personal se hacía llamar jefe de recursos humanos y, como los jefes de personal de todo el mundo, era una de las personas menos afables que uno podía encontrarse.
~ John Connolly
With Graham Greene life is a precious, perpetual, snot-sodden whinge.
~ John Crowley
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
~ John Cusack
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
~ John D. Rockefeller
I put the word "problems" in quotation marks, because difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
~ John Daishin Buksbazen
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
~ John Dewey
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur. To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry ? these are the essentials of thinking.
~ John Dewey
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
~ John Dewey
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
~ John Dryden
One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.
~ Christopher Moore
Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.
~ Denis Waitley
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
~ Epictetus
There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.
~ Finn Taylor
Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
~ George Foreman
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
~ Helen Clark MacInnes
Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you.
~ Jason Mraz
She has the gift of accepting her life.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.
~ Zig Ziglar
One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.
~ John Krasinski