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Quotes About Attitude

Hating withers your heart. Hearts that don't pump love, atrophy.
~ Terri Guillemets
Those obsessed with health are not healthy: the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
~ Sydney J. Harris, 1961
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
~ Proverb
Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.
~ Terri Guillemets
la vida resulta dichosa cuando se toma como viene.
~ Jack London
Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 
~ Jack London
Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.
~ Jack London
Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.
~ Jack London
He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.
~ Jack Trevor Story
Look, winning and losing can't be quantified. They are states of mind, and losing happens only when you give up. Seen that way, then, the world can be filled with winners, and there is room for them all.
~ Jack Welch
she couldn't offer sympathy to a girl who regarded the incident as a stroke of marvelous luck. "Well
~ Jacqueline Susann
Yes indeed,' said Miss Gibson. 'I'm starting to be very glad my last girl flounced off!' I
~ Jacqueline Wilson
You know, Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, you have an attitude problem. I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
I submit that style, too, is an answer to a common want; but not so much to formulated problems as to felt difficulties of an emotional kind. . . . Style is fundamentally a pose, a stance, at times a self delusion, by which the people of any period meet the particular dilemmas of their day.
~ Jacques Barzun
When nothing is revered, irreverence ceases to indicate critical thought.
~ Jacques Barzun
no one can absolutely control the direction of his life; but each person can certainly influence it. The armchair explorers who complain that they never got their "one lucky shot" were never really infected by the incurable drive to explore. Those who have the bug—go.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Rabbi Akiba said: Israel must not be like the pagans, thanking their wooden gods when good happens and cursing them when evil comes. When good comes, the Jews thank God, and when evil comes, they thank Him too.
~ James A. Michener
The first word implied a philosophical system, the second a social order, and the third an attitude toward technology; and he concluded that in each category his reader must grasp three fundamental developments.
~ James A. Michener
I think the idea of simply enduring to the end is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them enduring anything then you're doing it wrong.
~ James A. Owen
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
~ James Allen
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.
~ James Allen
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
~ James Allen
The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
~ James Allen
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself;
~ James Allen