Quotes About Attitude

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

But it's as my mother says: "When a girl can't dance, she blames the musicians …

Well, to quote my mother, a worm lies in horseradish and thinks there's nothing sweeter.

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

enjoy your problems

Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

Beware of people who say they're too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.

A man's shoes said something about his character. Jennifer looked for jurors who wore comfortable shoes, because they were inclined to be easy-going.

There are no such things as dumb problems. There are only dumb students.

I couldn't understand why he had such an attitude. Most teachers did their best to help hockey players because most of the players wanted education and hockey, and doing both was tough without support from the teachers. Anyway, my first two years in junior hockey had shown me there were better things to be afraid of than someone like this, attitude or not.

Most importantly, the very inception of the treatment itself necessarily induces a change in the patient's conscious attitude to his illness...that he does not listen carefully enough to what he obsessional ideas are saying to him, or does not grasp the real intention of his obsessional impulse.

We are astonished to hear declarations by married women and girls which bear witness to a quite particular attitude to the therapeutic problem: they had always known, they say, that they could only be cured by love.

si te sientes desgraciada, domina este sentimiento; haz de modo que tu felicidad no dependa de ningún hecho.

The moral of the story: Every day is a special day. A tear in your chiffon? So what! A food stain on that satin ruffle? Big deal! A little paint spatter on that velvet blazer merely adds to your overall patina. When women ask me for fashion advice, I always say the same thing: "Go home and throw out all your 'work' clothes!" If you always dress as if you are going to a party or a Bowie concert—or a Black Eyed Peas concert—you will always have more fun.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.

Nul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.

one of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11

There is no such thing as maternal instinct: the word does not in any case apply to the human species. The mother's attitude is defined by her total situation and by the way she accepts it.

I asked Isabelle whether she was happy. "I never ask myself, so I suppose the answer is yes." At all events she likes the moment of waking up. That seems to me a pretty good definition of happiness! It is the same with me: every morning, when I open my eyes, I smile.

He draws the motivations of his moral attitude from within the character which he has given himself and from within the universe which is its correlative.

No one is more arrogant, more aggressive or more disdainful towards women, than a man who is fearful for his masculinity.