Quotes About Attitude

There's always another perspective, if you look hard enough.

el verdadero fracaso es elegir fracasar.

Until you know it ain't true, treat every woman like she has an older brother what is stronger than you are?

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

You are responsible for the energy you bring into this room.

As Anne Lamott said, "Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I only drink on two occasions—when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

The antithesis of giving thanks is grumbling. The grumblers live in a state of self-induced stress.

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.

Never worry about what may happen tomorrow, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it won't. And don't take things too seriously, for very few things are worth it.

Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat--an order he had been delighted to obey.

My grandmother is over eighty and she still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Joy and resentment cannot coexist.

Prayer then becomes an attitude that sees the world not as something to be possessed but as a gift that speaks constantly of the Giver. It leads us out of the suffering that comes from insisting on doing things our way. It opens our hearts to receive. And prayer refreshes our memory about how other people reveal to us the gift of life.

We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.

The reward of choosing joy is joy itself.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.