Quotes About Attitude

Dio mio», aveva aggiunto Bunny, soffiandosi il naso. «A volte mi sembra di non poter mai vincere». «Non puoi vincere», aveva risposto Henry. «Puoi solo fare del tuo meglio».

But I have often thought that it made me a nicer person, I really do. When you are truly humbled, that can happen. I have come to notice this in life. You can become bigger or bitter, this is what I think.

Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft melancholy that went with her everywhere.

he had thought more and more how provincial New Yorkers were, and how they didn't know it.

When you are truly humbled, that can happen. I have come to notice this in life. You can become bigger or bitter, this is what I think.

The fair sex is your department.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

For Sale, Europeans are nature-haters; they are cut off from life.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

What comes from a willing hand is far more acceptable than what comes from a full hand. "It was a small favour for him to do"; yes, but he could do no more. "But it is a great thing which this other gave"; yes, but he hesitated, delayed, grumbled in the giving, gave disdainfully, or he made a show of it and had no mind to please the person on whom he bestowed it. Why, such a man made a present to his own pride, not to me!

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Lebensklugheit bedeutet: Alle Dinge möglichst wichtig, aber keines völlig ernst zu nehmen.

The eye is always half-full.

You can get used to anything, especially when you have no option. If you have to pay, you pay; it's just a question of attitude. At a particular moment in your life you adopt a certain position, whether mistaken or not. You decide to be like this or that. You burn your boats, and then all you can do is defend that position, come what may.

Qué español suena eso, ¿verdad?… Si no ganas tú, al menos procura que no gane el otro. Que todos pierdan.

siempre es bueno saber de qué pie cojeamos. Falcó había sacado la pitillera y prendía un cigarrillo. Cerró el encendedor con un chasquido. - Yo cojeo según el pie que me pisen.

Siempre es usted así? - ¿Cómo es así? - sonrió Falcó. - Tan engreído. Tan seguro de sí mismo. Tan de todo. - Va por días. - ¿Y hoy es uno de esos días? La miró con cara de buen chico. Directo a los ojos. - Depende de usted.

equivoca —dijo de pronto Ruy Díaz, como para sí mismo— quien hace la guerra con la única esperanza de vencer siempre.

Apatía y resignación, son las palabras nacionales

Saber que la vida —dijo muy despacio— es una broma de mal gusto, llena de azares, enemigos y payasos que saltan con su resorte al abrir la caja, es lo único que proporciona temple suficiente para burlarse de todo

This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication

bad luck. That is because what you focus