Attitude Quotes

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Karl Jaspers

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves.

James Welch

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amy Adams

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they'll never be eclipsed.

Benny Green

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Pearl Buck

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Arthur Ashe

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

Bela Kun

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Francis Parker Yockey

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Dalai Lama

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Bo Bennett, Year to Success

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Patrick Swayze

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Thaddeus Golas

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Elean