Quotes on Attitude

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Author: James Adams

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

Author: Timothy Ash

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Author: Arthur Ashe

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Author: Shawn Ashmore

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

Author: Michael Aston

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Author: Gene Barry

I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

Author: Don Baylor

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Author: Walter Benjamin

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Author: Bo Bennett

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Author: Wade Boggs

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Author: Derek Bok

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.

Author: Christie Brinkley

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Author: Peabo Bryson

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Author: Steve Buscemi

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Author: David Byrne

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Author: Allan Carr

I will not get very far with this attitude.

Author: Nancy Cartwright

I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.

Author: Crystal Chappell

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Author: Chevy Chase

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Author: Stuart Chase

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.

Author: Dick Cheney

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Author: Winston Churchill

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

Author: Morris Cohen

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Author: Arthur Compton

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Author: Simon Cowell

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Author: James Cromwell

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

Author: Glenn Danzig

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Author: Jim Dine

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

Author: Eliza Dushku

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

Author: Dennis Eckersley

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

Author: Meister Eckhart

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Author: Albert Einstein

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Author: Carmen Electra

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Author: Duke Ellington

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Author: Arthur Erickson

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Author: Robert Evans

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

Author: Lou Ferrigno

We've been seeing some good things from Randy. We're starting to see that Randy Johnson attitude that we've been looking forward to seeing.

Author: John Flaherty

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Author: Grandmaster Flash

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

Author: Richard Fleeshman

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

Author: Lita Ford

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

Author: Lita Ford

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Author: Viktor Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Author: Viktor Frankl

Attitude is everything.

Author: Diane Furstenberg

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

Author: Lesley Gore

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Author: Gordon Gould

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.

Author: John Grierson

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Author: Thomas Griffith

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Author: Lewis Grizzard

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Author: Herbie Hancock

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Author: Marvin Harris

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Author: Marilu Henner

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Author: Johan Huizinga

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Author: Brit Hume

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

Author: Michael Hutchence

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

Author: Hugh Jackman

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.

Author: Jesse Jackson

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Author: William James

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Author: William James

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Author: Ferguson Jenkins

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

Author: June Jordan

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Author: Michael Jordan

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

Author: Sally Kirkland

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Author: Michael Korda

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

Author: Bela Kun

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

Author: Christopher Lambert

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Author: Norman Lamm

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Author: Adriana Lima

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

Author: Nick Lowe

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

Author: Tobey Maguire

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Author: Hermann Maier

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

Author: Peter Mandelson

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Author: Og Mandino

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

Author: Marcel Marceau

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

Author: Dan Marino

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Author: Mick Mars

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Author: Ralph Marston

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

Author: Bill Mauldin

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

Author: John McCarthy

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Author: Ed McMahon

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

Author: William Minto

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

Author: Dale Murphy

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Author: Len Murray

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Author: V. Naipaul

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Author: Patricia Neal

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Author: Earl Nightingale

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Author: Earl Nightingale

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Author: Leonard Nimoy

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

Author: Phillip Noyce

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

Author: Major Owens

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Author: Walter Pater

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Author: Norman Peale

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Author: Alan Perlis

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

Author: Harold Pinter

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Author: Karl Popper

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

Author: Gail Porter

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Author: Colin Powell

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

Author: Alain Prost

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Author: Herbert Read

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Author: Miranda Richardson

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Author: Pat Riley

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Author: Pat Riley

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Author: Geoffrey Rush

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Author: Edward Sapir

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Author: Jose Saramago

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

Author: Dwight Schultz

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Author: Hans Selye

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Author: Terry Semel

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

Author: Alan Shepard

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Author: Rob Simmons

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.

Author: Vic Snyder

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

Author: Mark Spitz

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Author: Gwen Stefani

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Author: W. Stone

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Author: Tom Stoppard

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Author: Charles Swindoll

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Author: Charles Swindoll

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

Author: Mick Taylor

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

Author: Clarence Thomas

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

Author: E. Thompson

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

Author: Johnny Thunders

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

Author: Todd Tiahrt

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

Author: Guillermo Toro

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Author: Ted Turner

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

Author: Paul Twitchell

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

Author: Carrie Underwood

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Author: Paul Valery

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Author: Bill Veeck

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Author: Shane Warne

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

Author: Sue Wicks

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

Author: Treat Williams

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Author: Ellen Willis

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Author: Francis Yockey

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Author: Zig Ziglar

When life gives you lemons, squeeze them in someone's eye.

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Every mountain you climb teaches you to admire the view from the top.

Author: Kathryn Jones

Success is not about how high you soar, but how far you wear your scars with pride.

Author: Avery Miller

Life is a mirror where your attitude is the reflection you see.

Author: Amanda Ward