Quotes About Attitude

putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, birng forth.

The foolish wish and grumble; the wise, work and wait.

Blessedness and riches are only joined together when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile

All things are mirrors in which you see yourself reflected, and the gloom which you perceive in your work is but a reflection of that mental state which you bring to it. Bring a right, an unselfish, state of heart to the

did that attitude work? Of course not.

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.

The key to success is to approach everything with humility. To know that there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.

If I had only focused on big successes," he said, "then I would be disappointed most of the time. You have to focus on the small successes and make sure to celebrate them.

Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don't get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?

Don't be sad when you fail and happy when you succeed. Both are going to happen again and again at every new level.

If you lower your expectations, for instance, your expectations are easy to exceed.

Remember: complaining is draining. So I wanted to make better use of that energy rather than fight it.

I live life as gently and positively as possible—then my negotiations work out, and then my tomorrows and the tomorrows of the people around me are pleasant.

The only thing you have control over is your mindset, your habits, and the choices you make internally about how you're going to deal with a situation.

if you can't find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent--which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

If you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty- they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?

No,' he said, frankly, 'I don't. I don't believe all this female intuition shit. It's something women have dreamed up.' 'You can say that--and in such a tone!' she mimicked him: 'Something women have dreamed up. But I can't say that--what men have 'dreamed up' is all there is, the world they've dreamed up is the world.