Attitude Quotes - Page 25

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

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.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.

I would rather die standing than live kneeling

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

The control center of your life is your attitude.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

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.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.