476 private quotes tagged attitude

“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” — Colin Powell

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“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'” — Lewis Grizzard

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“Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.” — Josh McDowell

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“So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.” — Gail Porter

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“A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.” — Tom Brady

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“I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.” — Richard Pryor

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“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.” — Frank Sinatra

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“Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.” — Francis Parker Yockey

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“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.” — Paul Valery

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“The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.” — Jim Fowler

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“My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.” — Loretta Lynn

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“When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Funny is an attitude.” — Flip Wilson

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“Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.” — Ivan Illich

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“Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.” — Lesley Gore

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“Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.” — Billy Corgan

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“I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.” — Imelda Marcos

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“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” — Milan Kundera

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“I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.” — Kirstie Alley

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“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?” — David Byrne

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“I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.” — Hollis Stacy

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“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.” — William J. Brennan, Jr.

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