Attitude Quotes

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“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, Venus in Arms

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

“Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?”
― C. Toni Graham

“None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.”
― Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential - Discovering the Hidden You

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.”
― Nido Qubein

“Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.”
― James A. Owen, The Search for the Red Dragon

“A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.”
― Lisa Alther

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is."
"And what is that?
"Style," Kelsier said.
Then he punched Ruin across the face.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

“In the case of suicide, people think that no fight was involved they merely think that the person couldn't take it and felt weak. They forget all the mental struggles the person faced because the were invisible and sometimes unspoken and unexposed to anyone. This attitude of society is wrong.”
― Deeksha Arora

“The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Pull for the Mets. Watch a lot of movies. Don’t work too hard at your job. Take a trip to Paris with me. Come to the hospital when Rachel has her baby and hold my grandchild in your arms. Brush your teeth after every meal. Don’t cross the street on a red light. Defend the little guy. Stick up for yourself. Remember how beautiful you are. Remember how much I love you. Drink one Scotch on the rocks every day. Breathe deeply. Keep your eyes open. Stay away from fatty foods. Sleep the sleep of the just. Remember how much I love you.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”
― Hilari Bell, Crown of Earth