Quotes about Attitude

What grabs us is the shocking disproportion between what we perceive to be the sin (anger) and its consequences (eternal punishment). In the words of R. T. France, "ordinary insults may betray an attitude of contempt which God takes extremely seriously.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all . When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.