Quotes About Attitude

Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live.

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

Richard Lewontin comments . . . To be convinced that all behavior on the part of others, without distinction, is hostile, is a form of mental illness.57

deep humility. There is nothing the arrogant hate more.

As Anthony Trewavas once put it, "The use of the term 'vegetable' to describe unthinking or brain-dead human beings perhaps indicates the general attitude [toward plants].

Some are born jerks" she said, "some have jerkhood thrust upon them, and some mature into rich and vibrant jerks. You are all three.

It sometimes seems that her getting into it with Jon is merely judiciously firm parenting, whereas when I do the same thing it's me being oppressive, or uncool, or basically an asshole.

La amargura hace más daño en la vida donde se acumula que en aquel sobre quien se derrama».

Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.

You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden.