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Attitude Quotes


"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."


"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."


"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."


"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."


"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky."


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


"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."


"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."


"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."


"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."


"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."


"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."


"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."


"Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching."


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


"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."


"Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture."


"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."


"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."


"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."


"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."


"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."



"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."


"What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did."


"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."


"Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization."
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