Quotes About Attitude

The level of our self-esteem influences how we act, and how we act influences the level of our self-esteem.

Persons of low self-esteem tend to discount the productions of their mind. It is not that they never get worthwhile ideas. But they do not value them, do not treat them as potentially important, often do not even remember them very long—rarely follow through with them. In effect, their attitude is, "If the idea is mine, how good can it be?

By this I mean that behaviors that generate good self-esteem are also expressions of good self-esteem.

for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offences, but never resentful of great ones.

Despite all her misgivings and regrets, she was "determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.

The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.

Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.

Dying was easy. A paper cut? That would be annoying.

Ella era la clase de chica que participaba, mientras que Rowan era la clase de chico que evitaba a los demás.

She would have asked the man why he stayed if he so disliked it here, but she knew the answer. He stayed because his greatest joy in life was to complain.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

That's your response to everything: drink? No, that's my response to nothing.

What's wrong with assholes, baby?

I met Betty on the street. I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman. None of them are.