185 Attitude Quotes

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.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

Don't worry, be happy.

It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character. ~ Ch. 10

'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.' 'Come, then,' returned the nephew gaily. 'What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.'

My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

I'm grateful that I have two middle fingers, I only wish I had more.

Chorus: 'Hope for the best. Expect the worst. / Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.'

'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he.

Don't believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them.

God knows I do the best I can, so fuck everything.

I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!

He is not, as he forcibly remarks, 'one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark-naked, would come up on the other with a new suit of clothes on, and a ticket for soup in the waistcoat-pocket:' neither is he one of those, whose spirit has been broken beyond redemption by misfortune and want. He is just one of the careless, good-for-nothing, happy fellows, who float, cork-like, on the surface, for the world to play at hockey with: knocked here, and there, and everywhere: now to the right, then to the left, again up in the air, and anon to the bottom, but always reappearing and bounding with the stream buoyantly and merrily along.

'What's in the tea?' 'Water, bitch!'

Ethel patted her hair and looked very sneery.

[while stomping dirty shoes on a suede couch] Fuck yo couch nigga'! Buy another one you rich muthafucka! Fuck yo' couch nigga! Fuck yo' couch! Darknesses, darknesses!

The Rock: IT-IT-IT-IT-IT DOESN'T MATTER!

I am more and more convinced that taking life over-seriously is a frivolous thing. There is an affected self-dramatizing in the brooding over one's prospects and destiny. The trifling attitude of an Ecclesiastes is essentially sober and serious. It is in closer touch with the so-called eternal truths than are the most penetrating metaphysical probing and the most sensitive poetic insights.

Big deal! I'm used to dust.

Oh, quit being such a Pollyanna.

Certaine gayete d'esprit conficte en mespris des choses fortuites.

With patient inattention hear him prate.

The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God.

She stood there, solemn, almost terrible, transfixing him with her great blazing eyes.

'I don't know much about E-raq and raging gas prices, but let's rock on.'

I shit on the chest of Fun.

If you're a feeble, weak-minded person to begin with, I don't have time for you.

He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his Estate faster than he gott it; he replyed, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.

Do not seek pleasure everywhere but always be ready to find it.

Clearly, I like to poke fun.

Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is 'Blessing.'

Politics has become a dirty word.

I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)

'We are Motorhead... and we're gonna kick your ass!'

'Born to Lose, Out to Lunch' - Written on the front of Lemmy's bass.

What's that Mr. Veedle? Privileged information?... that's so cute.

I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.

Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.

Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs-because I want them-for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies. Now stop it!

Education is like alcohol; some people can't take it.

Alright, alright. That joke's better than you acted. Perhaps it's not. Maybe it's dumb. It could be. I hear you, man. I'm not a fuckin' genius for Christ's sakes. You know. I'm just tryin' to tell some jokes. Shit. Who the fuck are you? That track is number fourteen. It's called 'Attitude'.

In a recent British magazine poll, MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky was named the world's top public intellectual. Can you imagine being named that? That'd be wonderful, yes. Absolutely. And if I was the world's top public intellectual, you folks could all kiss my ass. --David Letterman, October 19, 2005 [268]

The message seemed to be, you can't change anything and you'll end up dead so why try?

Nothing is too shocking for me.

I think if you take sexuality very seriously it becomes very oily.

A hot topic of late, expressed most notably in Bernie Siegel's best-selling books, has emphasized the role of positive attitude in combating such serious diseases as cancer. From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom.

It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence.'

I care not a straw for the opinions of the world.

Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.

A lot of people have bad luck. They should just be like Fields and not give a fuck.

Mark: I know that was a concern for you that, wasn't it? You were really nervous about this particular performance. Why? I really, really admire you for that Hayley. I admire the fact that you are actually quite green. I mean in the studio you were green and this is a whole new experience for you but the way that you approach it, the openess of mind is really, really admirable and I think the simplicity, how you handled that was really terrific. Good on you Hayley.

'Me, I don't give a fuck. You know, a hole's a hole. As long as there's a little heat in there I don't give a fuck.' (from 'Testing for Jeopardy')

When God comes at me do I bow the stallion's legs or meet him with flared nostrils?

Keep them high like Kurt Cobain.

It is not a matter of who can give the most but rather the spirit in which one participates in nation- building. And I apply that term to whatever useful exercise one is doing at any given time.

'The British music press has taken a beating the last couple of nights from us (...) but they're fucking wankers, they eat shit in the bath.' -London, 1978

'Yeah, I got blown up, cut up...I remember actually, when I had to go the Ripley premiere which was happening at that time, I arrived with this huge gash in my head. Very cool, really'. - about working on Enemy at the Gates

This time around, I'm taking no shit ~This Time Around

I must make the important distinction between the rebel and the revolutionary. One is in ineradicable opposition to the other. The revolutionary seeks an external political change.... The origin of the term is the word revolve, literally meaning a turnover, as the revolution of a wheel. When the conditions under a given government are insufferable some groups may seek to break down that government in the conviction that any new form cannot but be better. Many revolutions, however, simply substitute one kind of government for another, the second no better than the first-which leaves the individual citizen, who has had to endure the inevitable anarchy between the two, worse off than before. Revolution may do more harm than good. The rebel ... seeks above all an internal change, a change in the attitudes, emotions, and outlook of the people to whom he is devoted. He often seems to be temperamentally unable to accept success and the ease it brings; he kicks against the pricks, and when one frontier is conquered, he soon becomes ill-at-ease and pushes on to the new frontier. He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stultifying control.

Moreover, given the unpleasant option of having to associate with either the self-satisfied beautiful or the self-pitying plain, he'd choose the former every time because beauty could sometimes transcend smugness whereas self-pity just made ugliness all the more unattractive

Was born rough and rugged, addressin the mad public/My attitude was, 'Fuck it,' cause motherfuckers love it