Top 100 Attitude Not Quotes
#1. From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
Marina Abramovic
#2. Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner
#3. Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.
Zig Ziglar
#4. Attitude, not ability, determines destiny
Anonymous
#5. Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.
Goswami Kriyananda
#6. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
#8. The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#9. I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
Twiggy
#10. Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
Zig Ziglar
#11. Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.
Ronald Dworkin
#12. It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!
Zig Ziglar
#13. Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place. - Diary 6, pg. 52
Anais Nin
#14. To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact
Peter Singer
#15. It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#17. There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.
Pat Buchanan
#18. The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.
Bruce Lee
#20. But it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
David Mitchell
#21. Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
Jack White
#23. Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.
Amisha Patel
#24. Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'
Alistair Cockburn
#25. Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Edward Heath
#27. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#28. Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
Sophocles
#29. Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Ernest Hemingway,
#30. It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
#31. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
#33. Being a jerk is more of a habit or a personality trait of sorts, not an attitude. It's incurable.
Cameron Jace
#34. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#35. You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#36. You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
Margaret Atwood
#37. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#38. The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. Let's go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear.
Wayne W. Dyer
#40. One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas
#41. There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life with a negative mind.
K. Farrell St. Germain
#42. When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
Epictetus
#43. Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
Martin Buber
#45. What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
John Cage
#46. Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.
Jonathan Gash
#47. When you're angry you act according to your emotions, not with your mind.
Lakshmi Menon
#48. Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:
It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#49. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
C. JoyBell C.
#50. Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.
Christie Brinkley
#52. Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#53. The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
#54. It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.
Jim Rohn
#55. I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting something in pen and paper, is interesting, unique, nothing less than a challenge.
Deepak Ranjan
#56. I'm trying to do of a certain attitude in life. I'm against separatism. I'm for everyone to gather. I'm for everyone lunatic to hang out together. I want to hear somebody else's bad night, not just mine.
John Waters
#57. In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the ghetto. There is a language of the barrio. And it's not good. There is an attitude. There is a behavior. There is a mindset and we wouldn't anybody to be stuck in it.
Rush Limbaugh
#58. I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.
George Orwell
#59. We might not get to choose who we're born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.
Reilyn J. Hardy
#60. Which people show you an attitude, they people have not an aptitude ...
Dhiren Prajapati
#61. Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
Dallas Willard
#62. The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.
Byron Nelson
#63. Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
Rodolfo Costa
#64. Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.
Conor McGregor
#65. WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.
WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.
HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU.
Marvin J. Ashton
#66. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#67. In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
Michael Kinsley
#68. Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
#69. A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.
Robert Spencer
#70. There is but one Morning,
that when we took our first Breath;
All the others are reminders
that we have not yet journeyed into death.
Renee Rentmeester
#73. So don't come in here acting like you matter. You left and took your high horse with you," he takes another step in my direction. My throat constricts.
He's not finished, "And you show up here at my club thinking you can just waltz right in and have a say? No bitch.
Bink Cummings
#74. Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
Ralph W. Sockman
#75. It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.
Leo Rosten
#76. I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.
Phife Dawg
#77. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.
Archibald Marwizi
#78. Most of our problems today are not that we don't know, but that we don't know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.
Peter Ustinov
#81. What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.
Sylvia Earle
#82. Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
Henry Fielding
#83. I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.
Georg Solti
#84. It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.
Thomas Szasz
#85. No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
C. JoyBell C.
#86. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.
Jason Fried
#87. I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II.
Terry Teachout
#88. Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.
Hal Elrod
#89. Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
Oscar Wilde
#90. Warren Buffett chuckled and said to me "I hope it's not my bad habits" Good Habits once established are just as hard to break as bad habits and bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. So what are you going to do about it?
Lucas Remmerswaal
#91. People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan
#92. Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge ... the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel ... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
Louis Farrakhan
#93. Make me strong. Not to be superior to others. To fight my greatest ennemy. Myself.
Kalki
#94. We are not so High or strong as the most beautiful trees, but our kindly habits and attitude can be so powerful as well.
Jan Jansen
Jan Jansen
#95. FYI, baby, havin' your attitude back is so far from annoying, it's not fuckin' funny.
Kristen Ashley
#96. It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking God for giving you elbows and knees, giving you ribs and the glandular system, giving you head and skull and brain.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#97. Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#98. At other places management says, 'Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?' Lewie was not only willing to bet the ranch. He was willing to hire people and let them bet the ranch, too. His attitude was: 'Sure, what the fuck, it's only a ranch.
Michael Lewis
#99. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
Emmett F. Fields
#100. Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?
Joy Williams
