Quotes About Attitude

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.