Quotes about Attitude

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

It's good to get good marks, but some students take it on their heart when they score less in future. But the average student, on the contrary, keeps on trying to do something or the other to achieve his goals.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three.

Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids.  I consider it morbid.  Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. 

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

You are not," said Norman Vincent Peale, "you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.

Is giving yourself a pep talk every day silly, superficial, childish? No, on the contrary, it is the very essence of sound psychology. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." These words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book on Meditations: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.