Quotes about Attitude

Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

We want people to like us and admire us and speak well of us. It is a deadly drive. Jesus warned us, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.

Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.

Not all question asking is good. It depends on the attitude. Is there a submission to the Word of God and a readiness to obey God when we understand what he wants of us? Is there a willingness to embrace the mysteries of God if something is plain but over our head?

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.