Attitude Quotes

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

~ William Ellery Channing

I don't have your way with words Sin said. So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

~ Alan Lightman

No one can know your strength and weakness better than yourself.

~ Rahul Kumar Tilwani

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself.

~ Robin Brande

How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

~ Stephen R. Covey

At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed.

~ Chinua Achebe

…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.

~ Alan Bradley

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.

~ Chris Page

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

~ Ken Keyes Jr.

He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Can you be serious for two words?Not without effort.

~ Steven Brust

Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.

~ Richard Lovelace

All great people had experienced dark times and moments of doubt but they find inner strength to overcome these difficulties. Persistent determination and enthusiasm fuel the hope within their spirit to press forward for the ultimate aim of achieving the goals they have set for themselves.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.

~ Lorii Myers

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.

~ Charlotte M. Liebel

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

~ Pat Conroy

The right attitude is everything!

~ Lorii Myers

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

~ Wilbert Rideau

I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

~ Deb Caletti

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

~ Nicholas Boothman

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile, put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken.... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

~ Atul Gawande

Who else, when we stepped to the line in Torino, was going to be so mentally tough? Who else would have proven to himself that he could do anything he set out to do? In a sport that was always one tick away from being entirely out of control, who else would have done everything he could to take charge of the things he could-and should- control to put himself in position to excel?

~ Apolo Anton Ohno

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

~ Michael Lewis

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

~ Eudora Welty

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.

~ Mel Odom

No being has the right to say to another, Do this, or I will hurt you.

~ Monty Roberts

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the framework of his neurosis.

~ Karen Horney

A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid.

~ Marty Rubin

Darling, you keep up that attitude and you’ll see how bad I can really be.

~ Emma Winters

Age is a number ... LIFE is all ATT-i-tude!

~ Lindee Rochelle

Life will never be perfect, so we must learn how to make the imperfections work for us.

~ Lindee Rochelle

Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.

~ Bert Mccoy

Elegance is a personality.

~ Petek Kabakci

You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.

~ Beth Kery

I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no longer adventures, no matter the attitude.

~ Tania Aebi

What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

~ James C. Crumbaugh

High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people’s expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a ‘go-getting personality’ while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What do you say becomes less relevant when it is compared with how do you say it.

~ Seema Brain Openers