Quotes About Attitude

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

A further distinction between people depends on whether they habitually place greater emphasis on the importance of outer objective events or inner subjective ones (i.e. whether their attitude to reality is characteristically extraverted or introverted).

In life we either become bitter or better'. And the only person who determines that outcome is ourselves.

If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

La felicidad no es una estación a la que se llega, sino una manera de viajar. MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

difícilmente los tontos son del todo buenos. Y lo peor es que los inteligentes difícilmente lo quieren ser».

One of the most quoted Stoic sayings must surely be Epictetus' (which we first encountered on p. 39): 'People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of things.

I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

El odio a la actitud científica caracteriza a ignorantes y resentidos.

No soy pesimista. Soy un optimista bien informado.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

Porque na vida há tantos tipos de perspectivas, as chamadas grandes perspectivas, que todos consideram fundamentais, e as que eu chamo microperspectivas, que serão insignificantes, admito-o, mas se tudo é relativo, se a natureza concede que existam águias e formigas, por que razão, digo eu, não se poderá viver como as formigas, de microperspectivas?

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

A big majority of people do not feel suffocation on having a negative person around own self as an associate because they themselves are no lesser toxic than him/her.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

A gentleman sees the people as they actually are character-wise and not how he himself is nature-wise and so he always says honestly whatever his heart feels like, good or bad, about their attitude.

A good person never says always good, but could also get rude to use rough language against the rascal and rogue people.