Attitude Quotes

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

~ Randy Pausch

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

~ Mira Grant

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

~ John Kennedy Toole

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.

~ Sonia Rumzi

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

~ Rosamund Lupton

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

~ W. Clement Stone

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens. Epictetus

~ Epictetus

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

~ Rick Warren

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

~ Terry Brooks

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

~ Nido Qubein

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

~ Criss Jami

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

~ Erle Stanley Gardner

Were you born this infuriating?It's taken me years of practice.

~ Misty Massey

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

~ James A. Owen

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

~ Rick Warren

I can smite you Nick grumbled. Anytime I like.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

~ Pablo Tusset

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

~ Adriana Trigiani

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

~ James A. Owen

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

~ Vanna Bonta

said Jack matter-of-factly. I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly. ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair....Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough.

~ James A. Owen

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

~ William Shakespeare

Age wrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world? neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

~ Marcus Aurelius

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

~ Sandra Brown

You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.

~ Tony Dungy

Attitude is everything.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Your attitude determines how you experience the world.

~ Sanaya Roman

A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

~ Theodore Roethke

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

~ Jane Austen

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.

~ Lorii Myers

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Every morning we wake up with the same choice: What will my attitude be today? Ask yourself that without fail. Decide that no matter what the day brings, your attitude will include three elements: an awareness of how far you’ve come, gratitude for where you are, and determination to keep moving in the right direction.

~ Toni Sorenson