Quotes About Attitude

My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

You might think she just liked the cut of my jib, but I've seen my jib and I'm here to tell you it's not cut that cute.

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

As with any new skill, attitude, style, or belief, adopting a coaching ethos requires commitment, practice, and some time before it flows naturally and its effectiveness is optimized.

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm—thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.

She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.

When you ask, you do not receive because you ask with the wrong motives" (James 4:3).

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.

You can't stand for Jesus without a Christ-like spirit.

I told you it was easy," HARV said. "True, but you say that about everything." "That's because everything is easy for me." "Everything but humility." "No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Success is a great deodorant.

He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.