Quotes About Attitude

Before and after he was rich, and indeed throughout a life that included being both broke and a billionaire, Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India and then decided that his calling was to create a business. And yet somehow these attitudes seemed to weave together rather than conflict.

As long as I am able to work, I must not and will not complain, because work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not?

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.

and that which is done of goodwill must, to my thinking, be accepted favourably. Had it been otherwise, methinks they had ere now been enlightened to do better.

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capabilities.

Our advantage, rather, was attitude: we had learned from Ben Graham that the key to successful investing was the purchase of shares in good businesses when market prices were at a large discount from underlying business values.

I've died before. It was boring, so I stood up.

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead?

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

We may exhort ourselves to read tolerantly, we may quote Coleridge on the willing suspension of disbelief until we think ourselves totally suspended in a relativistic universe, and still we will find many books which postulate readers we refuse to become, books that depend on 'beliefs' or 'attitudes'...which we cannot adopt even hypothetically as our own.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

As You Think, So Shall You Be.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.

When we change the way we look at things the things we look at will change

This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.

You cannot manifest thin from thoughts of I hate being fat. You cannot manifest purity from I despise being an addict. You cannot manifest health from I abhor being sick. In each of the above assertions of what you dislike, you are giving of your thoughts to creating more and more of the same. Since you become what you think about all day long, once again, the solutions involve a different level of energy to any of these and similar circumstances.

be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done its always your choice

You cannot have a feeling without first having a thought. Your behavior is based upon your feelings, which are based upon your thoughts. So the thing to work on is not to change your behavior, but those things inside of your consciousness that we call thoughts. Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behavior will flow automatically. Believe it, and you will see it!