Quotes About Attitude

When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.

They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees].

always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.

t is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us Our thoughts make things beautiful Our thoughts make things ugly The whole world is in our own minds Learn to see things in the proper light

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

If you treat someone under your control like a dolt, he will react like a dolt; treat him like an animal, and he will respond like an animal; treat him as an object of contempt, and he will become filled with a self-contempt that must sooner or later erupt in rage, hate and violence.

Don't take life seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Essentially, he taught that it doesn't make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life. The only choice we have is our attitude about the cards we hold and the finesse with which we play our hand.

We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.

I'd say, "But I'm not happy." And she'd say, "Where is it written that you're supposed to be happy all the time?

We expect you to spill the milk, but it's really how you clean it up that matters.

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.