1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
– Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
– Herm Albright
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
– Patricia Neal
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
– Lou Holtz
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
– Sue Patton Thoele
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
– Dr. Hans Selye
Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.
– John Amatt
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
– Vernon A. Walters
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Attitude is more important than reality.
– Elaine Agather
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
– Victor Hugo
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
– Jane Addams
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
– Thomas Troward
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
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
– Raymond Holliwell
Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.
– Dr. Viktor E Frankl
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal
– Woody Allen
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
– Clarence E. Hodges
Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Funny is an attitude.
– Flip Wilson
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
– J. Donald Wlters
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
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.
– Caroline Warner
