Quotes About Attitude

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness; whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Actually, being sixty-five isn't so bad. As a matter of fact I rather like being called a sexagenarian. At this time of life it sounds like flattery.

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.

You're only young once, but you can always be immature.

Never hear anything bad about Canada, that's one thing - in fact, I guess it's the only thing.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.