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Quotes About Attitude

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that....
~ Eleanor H. Porter
I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
it was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.
~ Elena Ferrante
Biz böyleyiz, güzel düÅŸüncelerle güzelleÅŸir, kötülerle çirkinleÅŸiriz; bu nedenle onlar? zihnimizden atmam?z gerekir.
~ Elena Ferrante
Me encontraba entre los que se esforzaban dia y noche, que conseguían magníficos resultados, que eran tratados incluso con simpatía y aprecio, pero que jamás lucirían con la actitud adecuada la alta calidad de esos estudios. Siempre tendría miedo: miedo de decir la frase equivocada, de usar un tono excesivo, de ir vestida de forma inadecuada, de revelar sentimientos mezquinos, de no tener pensamientos interesantes
~ Elena Ferrante
Volevo dire solo che sei brava a farti voler bene. La differenza tra me e te, da sempre, è che di me la gente ha paura e di te no.
~ Elena Ferrante
We two are made like that, when we have good thoughts we're pretty, but we turn ugly with mean ones, we have to get them out of our heads.
~ Elena Ferrante
That answer, as Lila's answers always were, always had been, though intended to be conciliatory, had something arrogant, scornful, about it, which made Pinuccia even angrier.
~ Elena Ferrante
Roberto the whole time with an attitude
~ Elena Ferrante
nu-mi amintesc s? fi crezut vreodat? c? viaÈ›a care ni se oferise era foarte urât?. ViaÈ›a era aÈ™a cum era si gata, creÈ™team cu obligaÈ›ia de a le-o face dificil? celorlalÈ›i înainte ca ei s? ne-o fac? dificil? nou?.
~ Elena Ferrante
Los priístas usan un lenguaje revolucionario, emplean términos muy avanzados, y sin embargo un campesino, sin palabras, sin lenguaje, con su sola actitud, es más revolucionario que todos nosotros juntos. Pablo Gómez, estudiante de la Escuela de Economía de la UNAM y de las Juventudes Comunistas.
~ Elena Poniatowska
men can be pigs, but also the opposite. what is the opposite of a pig?
~ Elfriede Jelinek
it was not a] circle—just a concrete platform with a pay phone and a sign that read EUCLID CIRCLE. I thought Euclid would have been mad. "That's so typical of your attitude," Svetlana said. "You always think everyone is angry. Try to have some perspective. It's over two thousand years after his death, he's in Boston for the first time, they've named something after him—why should his first reaction be to get pissed off?
~ Elif Batuman
Europe was so small. It seemed weird that people took it so seriously.
~ Elif Batuman