Quotes About Attitude

Ultimately, life is neither suffering nor bliss. It is what you make it.

If I think you are a wonderful person, I will have sweet emotions toward you. If I think you are a horrible person, I will harbor nasty emotions about you. If you make someone your enemy and then try to love him or her, that is hard work. Let us not make hard work of the simple aspects of life.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

told Reginald what I had learned: that in order to get something you had to look as though you already had something.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns- where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.

The people here are such snobs. She doesn't seem concerned that those snobs can hear her. But I honestly don't understand what they've got to be so snobby about. Don't they realize they live in New Jersey?

If you want a successful event, you have to project success; your attitude will help make it a hit.) Although

Bowie sat down for an interview with his Hunger costar Susan Sarandon and explained, "When you're young and you're determined to crack the big dream of 'I have a big statement and the world needs to hear my statement,' there's something a bit irresponsible about your attitude to the future. A nonrecognition that the future exists. I think it's important for youth to have that. My son keeps me remembering that there is a tomorrow.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. —Maya Angelou, author and poet Have

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens. —Epictetus, Greek philosopher I

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.' No, you should rather say: 'It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.' Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain. So why see more misfortune in the event than good fortune in your ability to bear it?

Your life is what your thoughts make it

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it.

All men die, but that not all men die whining

To change your experience, change your opinion. If you're upset by something outside you, it's not the thing itself that upsets you, but your opinion of it. And it's in your power to wipe away that opinion immediately.

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.