Attitude Quotes

I will not get very far with this attitude.
– Nancy Cartwright
I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
– Yani Tseng
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
– Carmen Electra
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
– Geoffrey Rush
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
– Richard Pryor
I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
– Ritchie Blackmore
I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.
– Eric Davis
I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.
– Koo Stark
I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.
– Glenn Danzig
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
– Chevy Chase
I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.
– Timothy F. Cahill
I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.
– Roy Keane
I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
– Elliot Richardson
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
– Colin Powell
I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.
– Crystal Chappell
I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
– E. P. Thompson
I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.
– Jon Fishman
I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.
– Hollis Stacy
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
– Diane Wakoski
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
– Jeffrey Archer
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
– Leonard Nimoy
I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.
– Joan Collins
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
– Leonard Baskin
I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.
– Diane Lane
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
– Sara Blakely
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
– Amy Adams
I still have a young attitude.
– Pat Morita
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
– Jimmy Carter
I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.
– Michael Biehn
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
– Taylor Hackford
I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
– Francois Hollande
I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
– Lita Ford
I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
– Christian Bale
I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
– Christian Louboutin
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
– Mary Lou Retton
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
– Imelda Marcos
I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.
– Michael Hutchence
I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they don't give you a hard time.
– Teddy Thompson
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
– Guillermo del Toro
I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.
– Francine Prose
I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.
– Sharon Gless
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
– Jack White
I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.
– Freddy Adu
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
– Kate Bosworth
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.
– Jessica Brown Findlay
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
– Michael Jordan
I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'
– Carson Daly
I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.
– Lawrence Kasdan
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
– Christian Bale
I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.
– Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
– Geddy Lee
I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.
– Boomer Esiason
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
– Jean Piaget
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
– Antony Sher
I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.
– Kgalema Motlanthe
I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'
– Terrence Malick
I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.
– Andy Cohen
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
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
– Tatyana Tolstaya
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
– Tom Petty
I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.
– Mike Judge
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
– Gwen Stefani
I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.
– Rachael Taylor
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
– Peter Mandelson
I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
– Kirstie Alley
I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.
– Ariel Sharon
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
– Michael Aston
I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.
– Jennifer Sky
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.
– Todd Tiahrt
I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
– Malcolm Mclaren
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
– Tony Hillerman
I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.
– Dennis Eckersley
I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.
– Martina Hingis
I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
– Bela Kun
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
– Patrick Swayze
Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
– Dean Cain
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
– Marvin Harris
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
Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
– Imelda Staunton
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
– Charles Frazier
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
– Dale Carnegie
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
– Pat Riley
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
– Tomas Borge
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
– Sir Walter Scott
Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.
– Doug Flutie
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
– Michael Haneke
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
– Bill Veeck
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.
– Alex Campbell
Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.
– Rebel Wilson
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
– Denise Mina
Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
– Etta James
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
– Lascelles Abercrombie
Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
– Nick Lowe
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
– Vera Wang
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
– Frank Sinatra
Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.
– Heather O'Reilly
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
– Joel Osteen
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
– Elbert Hubbard