Quotes about Attitude

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

I don't want to take off my shirt and roam topless all the time, just for the heck of it.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think, Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. That's why God gave 'em big muscles.

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.

The integrated sum of a man's basic values is his sense of life.

What made it worse was the clueless attitude of the Wall Street executives whose collective asses we were pulling out of the fire. Just before I took office, for example, the leaders of most of the major banks had gone ahead and authorized more than a billion dollars in year-end bonuses for themselves and their lieutenants, despite having already received TARP funds to prop up their stock prices.

At the time, I thought my life couldn't get any worse. Here's some advice: Don't ever think that.