Quotes on Attitude

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

Society is made up of individuals. The thoughts and actions of each individual influence the culture of that society. Instead of waiting for others to improve, we should try to improve ourselves. Once our attitude has changed, we will be able to perceive goodness throughout world. If there is a positive change in us, it will also be reflected in others. It is only what we give that we can hope to get back.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty judgments, to overreacting, giving up too soon, and missing those opportunities that always - always - appear just when you think life will never get better.

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.