Quotes About Attitude

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots

Up to a considerable point, as I see it, there's nothing difficult about golf, nothing. I see no reason, truly, why the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently, shouldn't play in the 70s

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.

Although my parents always treated Lennie Mae respectfully, I was aware of the social distinctions between us, probably in part because Lennie Mae herself was so aware of those distinctions.

I found that attitude remarkable. By this time the foreclosure epidemic had spread well beyond those who had knowingly purchased homes they could not afford.

Over time I would become more sympathetic to the behavioral view.

I avoided false optimism, but I did not want to appear defeatist, either.

He laughed. "That counts for a lot in this office," he

that investors had grown complacent and needed to be taught a lesson.

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.

This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.

This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And

This is why it's so comfortable to be on the left: that unearned sense of moral superiority. Unearned,

Las desgracias, que son lecciones y avisos de la Providencia, doman al más soberbio, y suavizan al más atrabiliario.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

Little things affect little minds.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)