The Attitude Quotes

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
- Alvin Adams

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

You want sweet dreams, lose the attitude and you might find I'll give you reason to have them.
Tate to Lauren
- Kristen Ashley

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
- Francis Bacon

Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: Let God be found true, but every man a liar.
- Greg L Bahnsen

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

Don't push me, princess. (Zarek)
Oooo. Next thing you'll be talking like the Incredible Hulk. 'Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry.' You're not scary to me, Mr. Zarek. So you can just check the attitude at the door and play nice while you're here. (Astrid)
If you want nice, baby, play with your fucking dog. When you're ready to play with a man, then call me. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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.
- Gene Barry

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
- Simone De Beauvoir

This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.
- Martha Beck

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.
- Walter Benjamin

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
- Joe Biden

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
- Wade Boggs

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.
- Christie Brinkley

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
- Zig Ziglar

Jimmy nods. Being with him like this, without the attitude and looking at me with complete trust, almost makes me understand why parents would go through the trouble of dealing with all of the bullshit of having kids. Then I remember how he told me I smelled like cat pee, and the moment passes.
- S G Browne

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.
- Eric Carr

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
- Raymond Chandler

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.
- Oswald Chambers

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.
- Michael Chang

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
- Bertrand Russell

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.
- Dick Cheney

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
- Arthur Holly Compton

The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that is truly attractive.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
- Rick Derringer

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
- John Dewey

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescensionthe attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
- Mark Van Doren

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

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.
- Albert Schweitzer

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade
- Simone Elkeles

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless..
- Elisabeth Elliot

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

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Victor Hugo

...that kind of skeptical questioning, don't accept what authority tells you -attitude of science- is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
- Carl Sagan

Our living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens
- Kahlil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
- Khalil Gibran

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: "Nobody loves me" or "Nobody cares about me", which can make it hard for other people to love us.
- Swami Dhyan Giten

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.
- Maurice Greene

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.
- John Grierson

In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of life. Such a sense doesn't force us into a somber cone of depression and futility; it urges the opposite. The tragic sense opens a human being to the exuberant joys of the present. To laughter, carnal ity, the comical varieties of love, to music and art, to the small human glories of the day.
- Pete Hamill

Whatever. I'm pretty sure Mercutio was a vampire. He had the attitude, you know? He just never got a chance to show his fangs.
- Kersten Hamilton

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.
- Anne Hathaway

I'm sorry, but are you pissed at me? Me? I'm the one who had your knee practically crushing my spine, buddy, so let's check the attitude.
- Rachel Hawkins

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
- Christie Hefner

Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanationit is self-evident.
- Laurie Helgoe

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
- Frank Herbert

One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us. Yet at the end of the day there would still be those "in the attitude of mocking and point their fingers" as Lehi saw (1 Nephi 8:27) because however much one tries in the world of glamour and fashion, it will never be glamorous enough.
- Jeffrey R Holland

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
- Brit Hume

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)
- Walter Isaacson

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
- Elton John

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
- Magic Johnson

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
- Donald Judd

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
- Florence Kelley

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
- Tom Wolfe

Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in the pot with the attitude men take on occasions like this, feeling the weight of their supervisory powers. Sugar smiles. A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once.
- Barbara Kingsolver

You're working for me cut out the attitude.
- Sophie Kinsella

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
- Willem De Kooning

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
- Mercedes Lackey

She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.
- Stieg Larsson

Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that skinny girl. Unlike other girls in the class, she never backed down, and she would not for a second hesitate to use her fists or any weapon at hand to protect herself. She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.
- Stieg Larsson

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

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

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.
[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]
- Hilary Mantel

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.
- Dan Marino

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
- Josh Mcdowell

Tybalt's what we call 'Cait Sidhe' the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes."
"Meow," said Tybalt, deadpan.
- Seanan Mcguire

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
- George Herbert Mead

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
- Ted Nugent

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
- Donny Osmond

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
- Leon Panetta

Consciousness and Healing
To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
- M Scott Peck

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

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on
- Anne Rice

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
- Mordecai Richler

And we, spectators always, everywhere,
looking at, never out of, everything!
It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses.
We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves.
Who's turned us round like this, so that we always,
do what we may, retain the attitude
of someone who's departing? Just as he,
on the last hill, that shows him all his valley
for the last time, will turn and stop and linger,
we live our lives, for ever taking leave.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.
- Kid Rock

If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past
- Gregory B Sadler

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.
- Edward Sapir

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

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.
- Reese Schonfeld

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
- Clifford D Simak

For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.
- David Simon

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.
- Vic Snyder

Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?
- Doug Solter

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
- Boris Spassky

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.
- Mark Spitz

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

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

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
- Carol Vorderman

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Denis Waitley

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- Alan Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- Alan Watts

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
- August Wilson

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
- Wilhelm Wundt

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
- Clara Zetkin