Quotes About Attitude

A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

many adults continue to do animistic things even in cultures that do not vigorously encourage them to do so. Naming cars and swearing at recalcitrant computers are common examples of the personalizing of the world – even if, when pressed, people insist they do not really expect a positive response from inanimate machines

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name—He marks—not that you won or lost—but how you played the game.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. "Alumnus Football

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

you are meant to play the ball as it lies.

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference)

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

A person cannot have it both ways regarding his final standard or ultimate reference point. He presupposes and reasons either according to the authority of God or according to some other authority. Attempting to be neutral about God's ultimate authority in determining what we know is a result of a bad attitude toward God's ultimate authority. It is a way of saying that one does not really need the work of Christ to save him in his reasoning.

Victory is sweet, but how you handle yourself in defeat is often more telling.

He looked fit and healthy, a vibrant seventy-something. The kind of man who was superb at caring for himself. Organic food and facial peels and a weekly massage at the racket club. The kind of man who marveled at why others couldn't just keep their heads above water like he did, who didn't understand that if you don't have any boots, you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

We don't need to get into all that right now," Darby continued. "I'm sure Mr. Marlow can read between the lines. Anything else, Mr. Marlow?" Jade noticed that her tone had changed. Though she was still polite, her warmth had departed.

Whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on if you're drinking from it or filling it." Milt Carp in Dollarapalooza

What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.

It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.