Attitude Quotes

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
– Imelda Staunton
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
– Evan Parker
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
– Timothy Garton Ash
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
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
– Alan Watts
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
– Peabo Bryson
But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.
– Cliff Richard
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
– Rob Zombie
But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
– Jon Fishman
But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
– Robert McChesney
Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
– Vivienne Westwood
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
– Steve Buscemi
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
– Steven Biko
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
– Steven Biko
Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
– Carrie Underwood
Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.
– PSY
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
– Lev Grossman
Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
– Adriana Lima
Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.
– Treat Williams
Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.
– Kenneth More
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
– Terry Bradshaw
Attitude is everything.
– Diane Von Furstenberg
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
– Paul Walker
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
– Bart Starr
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
– Seamus Heaney
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
– Hermann Maier
As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.
– Kathryn Stockett
Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they'll never be eclipsed.
– Benny Green
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
– Emmylou Harris
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
– Alan Watts
And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.
– Mark Wahlberg
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
– William Minto
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
– Johan Huizinga
Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
– Hugh Jackman
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
– Jo Ann Emerson
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
– Fritz Sauckel
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
– Marjory Stoneman Douglas
After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.
– Phillip Noyce
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
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
– Hans Selye
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
– Alicia Witt
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
– Patricia Neal
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.
– Ted Lindsay
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
– Elizabeth Edwards
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
– Wade Boggs
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
– Tom Stoppard
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
– Bessie Head
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
– Barbara Corcoran
'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'
– Dwight Schultz
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
– Maya Angelou
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
– Herm Albright
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
– David Bailey
The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.
– Dave Barry
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
– Bo Bennett
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
– Ambrose Bierce
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
– Joseph Brodsky
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
– Colleen C. Barrett
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
– Pope Benedict XVI
I practice yoga at Baptiste Power Yoga, which has studios around town. It's great for flexibility, it's therapeutic, and great for your attitude. And it gets you some silence during your day.
– Tom Brady
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
– William J. Brennan, Jr.
My attitude is, you're paying me - I'm yours. I'll go till I drop.
– Yancy Butler
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
It's awesome to me the number of people who don't really know who you are, but who're finding this music now and are curious, and my attitude is always to let people have a sense of who you are, so they know where this music and these songs come from. Because it is my life, or the life of people I know.
– Kenny Chesney
I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but there's never a time you're doing anything more than shoving one word up against the next. And clusters of those words make sentences and paragraphs and a chapter. You just try to maintain the same voice and the same attitude so it sounds like the same person wrote the last chapter that wrote the first chapter.
– Chuck Close
In Europe, there's a very different attitude towards art-you're sort of given your whole life to make your work, whereas here it's, what have you done lately.
– Chuck Close
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
– Kurt Cobain
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
– Jean Cocteau
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
– Robert Collier
Having the right attitude, you see, about family-related issues is crucial, and there are encouraging signs that attitudes are improving. But attitude isn't everything. Historical patterns show that without the foundation of a solid biblical worldview, attitudes can easily shift back and forth with the prevailing breezes.
– Charles W. Colson
Democrats - most Democrats, anyway - have that attitude towards human sexuality and morality in general, that if you're not harming someone else, you should pretty much be able to manage your own private affairs. The Republicans are eager to interfere in other people's private business.
– Joe Conason
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
– John Dewey
Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.
– Ronald D. Dworkin
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one. This way of thinking - this self-certainty - is based on not being educated.
– Shirin Ebadi
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
– Duke Ellington
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
– W. C. Fields
Was I gung-ho about changing society when I was 18? I don't know about that. When you're 18, you're really into yourself and what's happening to your body. But I definitely had some ideas. This malaise is not confined to America either. I spotted that same attitude in kids in Eastern Europe before the fall of communism.
– Ben Folds
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
Paul is like John Lennon. They're feisty. There's a rebellious attitude. You know, that's very acceptable. It's standard rebellious attitude stuff. The public tends to like that stuff. It shows that they're feisty, that they're not busy patronizing the proper-sounding, wholesome phrases of the culture.
– Art Garfunkel
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
– Harold S. Geneen
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
– Billy Graham
Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness. As soon as I decided that their career was their career and mine was mine and I would have to serve myself, my attitude changed. I'm as normal as you can be in these circumstances.
– Seth Green
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
– Robert Grudin
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
– Scott Hamilton
The other reason is the concept of attitude. I didn't want to appear angry, but it's okay to appear serious or to not smile.
– Herbie Hancock
When I sense a more conservative and limiting attitude coming from musicians, than my impression is that they're really moving away from the true spirit of jazz.
– Herbie Hancock
How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
– Franco Harris
In old times, and also in our time among the Indian tribes, psychedelic substances were considered sacred and they were used with the right attitude and in a ritual and spiritual context. And what a difference if we compare it with the careless and irresponsible use of LSD in the streets and in the discotheques of New York City and everywhere in the West. It is a tragic misunderstanding of the nature and the meaning of these kinds of substances.
– Albert Hofmann
The difference between the Paleo-cranks and the Commie-cranks is that the Communists are in love with an America in the future that's designed in their image and the Paleos are in love with the America of the 18th Century. That's the difference, but they share a common attitude towards America as it exists today.
– David Horowitz
In the peace process, the partner doesn't just sit and allow things to deteriorate to the point of disaster. The United States is needed with thoughts and with ideas, not only with the attitude of a messenger between parties, but - when things get rough - to come in and help with what is just and what is right, to overcome difficulty.
– King Hussein
I knew exactly what I wanted to do: I wanted to build a brand of clothing around my own attitude and my own lifestyle.
– Tommy Hilfiger
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.
– Beatrice Hinkle
Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence.
– Robert Inman
Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.
– Amy Irving
Our attitude toward immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as their talen and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
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
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
– Milan Kundera
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's pnly a choice of attitude.
– Judith M. Knowlton