Quotes About Attitude

That's part of the political job. To give comfort." Not to do the right thing, Benji thought, but to give comfort. Even when it wasn't appropriate to do so. The way the man spoke about Americans with such disregard rankled Benji. Shovel hot dogs. Dump beer. He really did see them as animals to be led around by the nose.

Did that high-and-mighty attitude of yours come attached to you when you were spawned?! Was it a bug your programmer couldn't fix?!

Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.

As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

But do you know what? Gravity doesn't care! It will always pull things down, and I may as well plan on it.

Canoeing, per se, isn't dangerous, but some canoeists are.

The rich and powerful like to appear conformist, God-fearing, vaguely naïve and permanently jolly because they are none of those things.

Belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

He spoke of both dancing and death with equal nonchalance, as though one carried as little significance as the other. It calmed her, hearing him talk that way.

Well, I am denying it. You think the world revolves around sex. It's pathetic.

It feels like I've died, he said to Caz when he'd finished. Well, you didn't. And I should be grateful, right? Right. Well, I'm not.

Life is as you yourself make it.

Colin could have been offended or irked by her presumptive attitude, but sharp women didn't threaten him. In fact, he enjoyed watching them work. And, of course, there was the fact that he'd married one.

That was Chas. Furious and black-hearted one minute, ready to crack a wry joke the next.

Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

I do hope your friend is not as annoying as you are." "Goodness, why on earth would I have a friend who wasn't?

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There

the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.