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Quotes About Contagious

Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where
~ Unknown
Good attitudes are contagious; they inspire and encourage others. Bad attitudes are also contagious; they create a negative and hostile work environment and make others feel uncomfortable - like they have to walk on eggshells all the time.
~ Unknown
Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.
~ Paulo Coelho
We who are living in the lap of luxury with our pitiful little psychological problems have a tremendous responsibility to let our clarity and our heart, our warmth, and our ability ripen, to open up and let go, because it's so contagious
~ Pema Chodron
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.
~ Ryan Lilly
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
~ Epictetus
Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'
~ Mac Anderson
Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform- and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.
~ David Foster Wallace
Bolshevism is not a policy; it is a disease. It is not a creed; it is a pestilence. It presents all the characteristics of a pestilence. It breaks out with great suddenness; it is violently contagious; it throws people into a frenzy of excitement; it spreads with extraordinary rapidity; the mortality is terrible; so that, after a while, like other pestilences, the disease tends to wear itself out.
~ Winston S. Churchill
His every movement is languorous. It feels dangerous to rest my gaze on him for too long, as though he is so thoroughly debauched that it might be contagious.
~ Holly Black
Was it contagious, the emptiness I felt? Was he worried he'd catch it?
~ Jess Lourey
The boy who was attacked could turn queer now, too. Did you ever think of that?" That sent a thrill of terror through me. Was that sort of thing contagious?
~ Jess Lourey
Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
~ Unknown
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
~ Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
She's mad. Best leave her be, in case it's catching.
~ Philip Pullman
Like evil, good is contagious. Therefore when Madame de la Chanterie's lodger had lived in that old and silent house for some months after the worthy Alain's last confidence, which gave him the deepest respect for the religious lives of those among whom his was cast, he experienced that well-being of the soul which comes of a regulated existence, gentle customs, and harmony of nature in those who surround us.
~ Honore de Balzac
Les trois femmes, saisies de pitié, pleuraient: les larmes sont aussi contagieuses que peut l'être le rire.
~ Honore de Balzac
I know very well that before an audience plain, honest truth may fail to be contagious or even welcome. But have you never remarked that, by using our opportunities wisely, we finally meet with days which may be called the festivals of morality and intelligence, days on which, naturally and almost without effort, the thought of good triumphs?
~ Honore de Balzac
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Do you realize that your love, your peace, your joy, your bliss can be so powerful in you that it becomes contagious, and people just want to be around you and they don't know even know why.
~ Unknown
She was like a drug. The most addicting kind, and he had a problem—he was pretty sure that she was developing feelings for him. He had no idea what to do with that, or with is own feelings, which were definitely getting in his way. This whole no emotional attachment thing had gone straight to shit. Because Mallory Quinn was emotionally attached to every person she ever met, and she had a way of making that contagious. He craved contact with her in a way that he wasn't experienced with.
~ Jill Shalvis
Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!
~ Jim George
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.
~ Jodi Picoult