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Quotes About Attitude

As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled. "Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Maybe I'll remove dying from my list of tasks to do this week.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Greet every morning with a smile. That way it won't know what you're planning to do to it?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Was he happy? He wasn't sad. For now, he'd accept "not sad.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. "What does it matter? It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up here—you should just sit back and enjoy it." An ominous crash came from the clouds above them, and Raoden felt a wet drop splat against his head. "Fantastic," Galladon grumbled. "I'm enjoying myself already.
~ Brandon Sanderson
She wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, 'cuz stuff needed to be kicked.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Besides, you scowl at everyone like an old man anyway. You'll be a great fit." Kaladin glowered at her. "Perfect! Keep it up!
~ Brandon Sanderson
Whenever I'm thinkin' my life is miserable, I remember him, and tell myself, 'Well, Wayne. At least you ain't a broke, dickless feller what can't even pick his own nose properly.' And I feels better.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Omens weren't real. But the way people reacted to them was very real.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Greet every morning with a smile. That way it won't know what you're planning to do to it?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Perhaps it was time, for once, to stop letting the rain dictate his mood. He couldn't banish the seed of darkness inside him, but Stormfather, he didn't need to let it rule him either.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Unlike a sword, scorn has only the bite you give it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Never call this land hell , he had said. Respect the land as you would a dangerous beast, but do not hate it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Laugh when good things happen. Laugh when bad things happen. Laugh when life is so plain boring that you can't find anything amusing about it beyond the fact that it's so utterly unamusing.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It is not at all polite to point out a crusty old pessimist's dark inner secret.
~ Brandon Sanderson
how often has "hope" been the reason someone refuses to move on and accept a realistic attitude? How often has "hope" caused more pain or delayed healing? How often has "hope" prevented someone from standing up and doing what needs to be done, because they cling to a wish for everything to be different?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Someone doesn't need to be the least bit funny to be an utter clown.
~ Brandon Sanderson
if he believed he didn't have to care, then he didn't need to hurt when he failed.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The more she thought of it, the more that luck seemed the opposite of being awesome. One was something you did; the other was something that happened to you no matter what you did. Course
~ Brandon Sanderson
That was the thing about omens—they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?
~ Brandon Sanderson
You can't control everything. But if you can control how people regard you, then you can find a place in this mess.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Llarimar raised an eyebrow. The value in something relates to how it is treated, Your Grace. If you see these items as junk, then they are, regardless of what someone else would pay for them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What was wrong with that young man who answered the door?" Wyndle asked. "Dunno," Lift said. "Some people are just born like that.
~ Brandon Sanderson