Quotes About Attitude

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

Is Jason intelligent enough to realise that if you describe a thirty-eight-year-old woman as middle-aged, she's more likely to want to kill you than help you? Because Lauren isn't.

When one has a driving preoccupation [...] it colours the way one sees the world.

Have you tried telling yourself that it's the best fun ever and you're loving every second of it? You'd be amazed how much that'll change your attitude and the outcome.

I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.

Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one's life, but of the quality of one's life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now.

It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.

The statement, "As a man thinketh, so is he," could equally well be rendered "As a man thinketh, so does he." If one thinks it long enough he is likely to do it.

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

it's better than a stick in the eye

When you don't worry whether you win or lose, or you don't even consider its effect, you give your hundred percent, then that is really playing, that is a real game.

A man will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent... Apparently he also has a pet cougar.

Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.

If you really want to communicate something, even if it's just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you're getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

I always think in this connection of the Rumanian saying my in-laws use when they see an extremely obese person: "So, you ate what you wanted.

Toward some few others who habitually became drunk or who couldn't control their drinking, most people adopted an attitude between knowing condescension and outright scorn: why were these people so weak or immoral as not to know when enough was enough?

He smiled to show he meant no offense, but Scott takes offense like it is going out of style, and bristled.

All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.