Quotes About Attitude

Trying often comes before failure. Endeavour more often leads to success. But they are just words, I hear you say. Why does it matter whether we say 'try' or 'endeavour'? It matters, believe me. Our words become our attitudes and our attitudes become our life.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. Once we begin to replace negative thinking with positive thinking, it becomes utterly clear that, far from being realistic, negative thinking is absolutely disenabling.

We all have choices in the way we react to the words we hear. Our lives and the lives of all those around us will be significantly improved if we choose to react positively rather than negatively.

The fault, dear investor, is not in our stars- and no in our stocks- but in ourselves...

Um cínico disse uma vez a G.K. Chesterton, o romancista e ensaísta britânico: "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois não ficará decepcionado." A réplica de Chesterton? "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois se deliciará com tudo.

This brief review indicates that the stock market's attitude toward secondary companies tends to be unrealistic and consequently to create in normal times innumerable instances of major undervaluation.

Hemos visto ganar y conservar mucho más dinero a «personas comunes» que estaban temperamentalmente bien dotadas para el proceso de inversión que a otras personas que carecían de esta buena predisposición anímica, aunque tuviesen un gran conocimiento de las finanzas, la contabilidad y la historia del mercado de valores.

In June 1949 the S & P composite index sold at only 6.3 times the applicable earnings of the past 12 months; in March 1961 the ratio was 22.9 times. Similarly, the dividend yield on the S & P index had fallen from over 7% in 1949 to only 3.0% in 1961, a contrast heightened by the fact that interest rates on high-grade bonds had meanwhile risen from 2.60% to 4.50%. This is certainly the most remarkable turnabout in the public's attitude in all stock-market history.

Racism is based on an elevation of our own talents, physical characteristics, and DNA—which we inherited by no choice or merit of our own—over someone else's. It's an assumption that the other person is different and thus we are better. It's an attitude that says, "I represent the norm, and you are the variation, the outlier, the odd one.

Yet to complain of the world's unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction.

He won't be happy," I said happily.

You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.

You can change a man's heart, but not his head.

do hate talking to old women; they're so grateful for company

Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end.

He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,' Alfred said, 'not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head.

Apart front the things you can pick up ( the dressing and the proper way of speaking and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me like a lady and always will.

Weißt du, was das Geheimnis ist?, raunte der Zwerg an SEINER Seite. Es ist die Kraft positiver Gedanken. Du musst einfach an das Beste denken und nicht an alle möglichen Unglücke, die geschehen könnten. Unsere Gedanken formen unser Leben!

Acostumei-me a uma atitude debochada, superior, mostrando-me como alguém a quem nada afetava, abalava, desesperava.

Así es la vida, nunca le sacarás todo el partido a lo que te ha tocado si no lo aceptas

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held.