Quotes About Attitude

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.