Quotes about Attitude

Our actions determine our dispositions.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.