Attitude Quotes

Your outlook shapes your reality more than your circumstances do — at least according to these thinkers. This collection covers mindset, perspective, and the daily choice between seeing the glass as half full, half empty, or just a glass that needs washing.

“Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.”

Arthur Erickson

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“My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.”

Julie Burchill

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

Tom Stoppard

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

Brian Tracy

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

Paul Valery

“We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.”

Benjamin Carson

“What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.”

Paul Ryan

“The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.”

Herbert Read

“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.”

Billy Graham

“Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.”

David Byrne

“A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.”

David Bailey

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

Thomas Jefferson

“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”

Alan Watts

“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.”

Andrew Weil

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