Quotes About Attitude

You Cannot Always Control External Events, But You Can Control Your Personal Peaks And Valleys By What You Believe And What You Do.

Frica pe care o laÈ™i s? te conduc? este mai rea decât situaÈ›ia rea în care te g?seÈ™ti.

God save us from gloomy saints!

He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.

By fretting at unfortunate events we double the evil

These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently.

You know, Michael, it's not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass.

We dress the way we think.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Smart is not something you are... Smart is something you get!

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying Young Lady after every sentence.

It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

they were really having fun being cynical, and I didn't want to ruin it.

The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like

For the rest of the school year, the teachers treated me different and gave me better grades even though I didn't get any smarter.

We all get an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

And to everyone at Susanna Lea's agency for their role in making this whole histoire possible. 'The English, by nature, always want to fight their neighbours for no reason, which is why they all die badly.' From the Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, written during the Hundred Years War

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

All people see the world, not as it is, but as they are

The Altitude of a person depends upon his attitude

El que puede cambiar sus pensamientos, puede cambiar su destino

The good poem is implicitly philosophical. The not so good poem, conversely, may exquisitely describe a tree or loneliness, but if the description does not suggest an attitude toward nature, or human nature, we are left with a kind of dentist office art — devoted to decoration and the status quo.