Quotes on Attitude

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.