Quotes about Attitude

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all . When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.