The Attitude Quotes

#1. It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.

Kitty Ferguson

#2. There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

Henry Ford

#3. All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Joey Ramone

#4. It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.

Pope Francis

#5. If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Vic Snyder

#6. We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#7. 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

#8. The maturity of every society is reflected in the attitude toward women, upon whom the continuation of mankind depends. Civilization

Deborah Kaple

#9. It wasn't just her beauty. It was the attitude in her smile, the tilt of her head, and the loving look in her eyes when she caught me sneaking a peek down her shirt.

John L. Monk

#10. If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past

Gregory B. Sadler

#11. The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

Willem De Kooning

#12. Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.

Wilferd Peterson

#13. The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.

Erich Fromm

#14. The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Dick Cheney

#15. Use this to your advantage. Never get desperate. Maintain the attitude that they need you more than you need them. No man is worth getting desperate over. If

Charles Reed

#16. The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story.

Paul Feyerabend

#17. History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#18. The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.

Nicos Anastasiades

#19. Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

Euginia Herlihy

#20. The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves

Willem De Kooning

#21. Nothing is impossible. Everything is possible. It's all in the attitude.

Richard Verry

#22. Nothing good stands without the right attitude. You may know how to do it, but if the attitude is negative, all you can say is "I could have done it".

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

George Herbert Mead

#24. To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. I remember one of my tutors saying, 'Always when on a long march assume the attitude you feel most inclined to, as it is less tiring.

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

#26. Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value in what they do. This is the attitude that motivates them to be and to do their best. It's a drive that comes from within people.

William Walton

#27. Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.

Frank Portman

#28. The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening.

Rush Limbaugh

#29. Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Earl Nightingale

#30. By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

Mark Spitz

#31. Whatever. I'm pretty sure Mercutio was a vampire. He had the attitude, you know? He just never got a chance to show his fangs.

Kersten Hamilton

#32. A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

Norman Vincent Peale

#33. I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Michael Chang

#34. I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

Rick Derringer

#35. The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that is truly attractive.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

Bertrand Russell

#37. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

Charles R. Swindoll

#38. The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Raymond Chandler

#39. As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

David Byrne

#40. Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

Kelly Clark

#41. It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

Quincy Jones

#42. I bet in big cities you can walk down the street scrowling and no one will ask you what's wrong or encourage you to smile, but everyone here has the attitude that we're lucky to live in Hawaii; paradise reigns supreme. I think paradise can go fuck itself.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#43. Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.

Donald A. Norman

#44. Discovering While Doing Is Natural ...
But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!

Sujit Lalwani

#45. After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley

#46. He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

Peter Jackson

#47. if a theorem is geometrically obvious why prove it? This was exactly the attitude taken in the eighteenth century. The result, in the nineteenth century, was chaos and confusion: for intuition, unsupported by logic, habitually assumes that everything is much nicer behaved than it really is. Good

Ian Stewart

#48. Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

Steven Pressfield

#49. Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.

Gregory Maguire

#50. In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

Clara Zetkin

#51. The winner's edge is all in the attitude,
not aptitude.

Denis Waitley

#52. I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.

Jenny Slate

#53. Cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#54. The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Tom Wolfe

#55. The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

Javan

#56. Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#57. The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

Jay Duplass

#58. The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#59. The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#60. Winning is all in the attitude!

Denis Waitley

#61. The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.

Rory Vaden

#62. It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

Jenny Diski

#63. There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

Keith Richards

#64. This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.

Martha N. Beck

#65. As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies ... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

Henry David Thoreau

#66. The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

James Stewart

#67. The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

Malorie Blackman

#68. Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

Martina Navratilova

#69. The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

Peyton Manning

#70. The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

Margaret Halsey

#71. As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

Jerry Della Femina

#72. I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

W. Eugene Smith

#73. Thankfulness is the attitude that perfectly displaces my sinful tendency to complain and thereby release joy and blessing into my life.

James MacDonald

#74. Create a friendly atmosphere on the inside and outside. Live Friendly. Be a friendly person on the inside. Have the attitude it takes to be smiling internally first.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#75. Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.

Marsha Petrie Sue

#76. The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

John Bertram Phillips

#77. The attitude of Tao is of cooperation, not conflict. The attitude of Tao is not to be against nature but to be with it, to allow nature, to let it have its way, to cooperate with it, to go with it. The attitude of Tao is of great relaxation.

Osho

#78. You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of the West was like granite and the West did not yield. Today, this nuclear threat still hangs on both sides, but the West has chosen the wrong path of making concessions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#79. If the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his home, he will be sent back to his parents, to teach them thus how to take advantage of their good opportunities.

Maria Montessori

#80. I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley

#81. The problem is, that it's easy to adopt the attitude of losers.

Lou Holtz

#82. Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

Walter Benjamin

#83. That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Kid Rock

#84. The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

X.J. Kennedy

#85. Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

Ashley Montagu

#86. Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart.

Nick Offerman

#87. I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

Ariel Sharon

#88. The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

John Dewey

#89. Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Wade Boggs

#90. If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.

Buzz Osborne

#91. It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity ...

Sakyong Mipham

#92. Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you.

Jim Rohn

#93. The reason many ... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God ... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.

Billy Graham

#94. It's all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.

Bo Jackson

#95. ...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.

William Golding

#96. The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

William James

#97. Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Harold Pinter

#98. You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your
attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#99. I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

Ted Nugent

#100. Now, with the Transparency Act, the government has set out to reveal wrongdoing by chiefs, not the Department. There is nothing wrong with the act except the context, the attitude and the political purpose.

John Ralston Saul