Quotes about attitude
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“Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Happiness, Happy, Attitude

“If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Hostility, Peace

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Thinking

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Motivational, Attitude, Back To Work

“My attitude towards death has changed a lot in recent years. I can easily accept my own death - it is not difficult. It's hard to lose someone.”

Chulpan Khamatova (1975) Russian actress

As quoted in "Правила жизни Чулпан Хаматовой" in Esquire https://esquire.ru/rules/6929-chulpan-khamatova/#part0

Death, Change

“My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate — “God grant me abstinence, but not yet.””

Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist

But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction, and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. It is one that my wife — who was the engine behind our family’s shift — and I have made. <br class="br"> "Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time", Truthdig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-one-meal-at-a-time/ (10 November 2014) <br class="br">2010s

God

“One of the greatest errors in the reconstruction of another era lies in our tendency to think of them as being like ourselves in feeling and attitudes. Actually, without considerable study on the part of a present-day man — if he were confronted by a fifteenth-century man — there would be no possible communication. I think it is possible through knowledge and discipline for a modern man to understand, and, to a certain extent, live into a fifteenth-century mind, but the reverse would be completely impossible.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis and Chase Horton (14 March 1958)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

Error, Feeling, Communication, Understanding

“A completely new attitude will take place in relation to work. Through the power of sound, man will build and create the artefacts of his civilization and control his environment, relating it to his real needs.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

“In an era of a global economy, we can't survive without foreign investment. We must change our attitude toward foreign investment. We should welcome it.”

Kim Dae-jung (1924–2009) South Korean politician

"New S. Korea Leader Warns of Hardship" in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/kimdaejung/kimdaejung.htm (18 January 1998)

Change

“Over the ages, if we had had a more open attitude to knowledge, to change of consciousness, to change of perception of the possibilities of life and the nature of the reality in which we live, people like Galileo or Copernicus would have had altogether easier lives.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

The Great Approach (2001)

Life, People, Age, Nature

“We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. Such attitude leads to a moral self-destruction.”

Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954) Polish politician, president of Poland

"Speech at the Jedwabne Ceremony" http://www.dialog.org/hist/kwasniewski.html (10 July 2001)

History, Past

“Many of the faithful believe Holy Communion leads to personal sanctification and transformation of attitudes and engenders responsiveness to the needs of others... for many others there is a disparity between what they believe and how they live.”

Gabriel Malzaire (1957) catholic bishop

Bishops urge concrete action to increase respect, understanding of Eucharist: seminary formation, penance, reverent posture https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/5097/bishops-urge-concrete-action-to-increase-respect-understanding-of-eucharist-seminary-formation-penance-reverent-posture (9 October 2005)

Faith, Personality

“The so called 'inner beauty' is simply character. It's your behaviour or attitude towards the world and people around you. Meaning, it can be beautiful and ugly too!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, World, Beauty

“Your spirit or attitude must be fearless in enjoying every part of worship and the companionship with the Creator.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parting

“I have the same attitude toward acting in television and in movies. For me, the only difference is the size of the screen.”

Kenji Sahara (1932) Japanese actor

“My attitude to writing is.. it's like when you do wallpapering, you know, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet, you think: "Oh my God that's horrible..."”

Harrison Birtwistle (1934) British composer

And then your friends come and say: "Who did this wallpapering? It's terrific!" <br class="br">Interviewed by Dan Warburton, July 8, 1995. http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/birtwistle.html

God, Thinking

“The supermodels all have skeletal bodies . . . the very existence of their bodies expresses an attitude: the disdain for men. The more men like a certain part of their bodies, the less they want to grow that part. Fashion is such an attitude.”

Yang Li (1992) Chinese stand-up comedian

Source: "The Art of Telling the Truth: Chinese Female Stand-up Comedians" in World Literature Today https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/culture/art-telling-truth-chinese-female-stand-comedians-ping-zhu (1 February 2021)

Men, Fashion, Parting

“The establishment of troops in the cultural circles has this problem: the class element is relatively complicated. But, while a person cannot decide his own origin, his performance and attitude still count.”

Jiang Qing (1914–1991) Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong

Source: Talk at the Peking Forum on Literature and Art (9 and 12 November 1967)

Problem, Personality

“Attitude is something each one of us can learn to enhance and control.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Learning

“People did not always love the mountains. Just a few hundred years ago the high mountains were regarded as horrible, monstrous places filling people with terror and fear. The inhabitants near them were seen as awful demons, subhumans. But this attitude got transformed into just the opposite, especially by Romantic writers and painters in the nineteenth century. Seen by the Romantics, high mountains became places of impossible beauty, where the quality of light and the expansive solitary grandeur of the high peaks opened the heart of the individual. A man climbing a mountain became the image of self-conscious intelligence pitted against the eternal indifference of the forces of nature. Compared to these forces of nature, we are nothing save for the will that moves our limbs. Only that will is truly our own.”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 271-272

Love, People, Fear, Beauty

“The hope is there thanks to our communities, where faith is so alive that we can see a future through their open attitude to life, to God and the Church.”

Jesús Tirso Blanco (1957–2022) Argentinian bishop

"The population still needs to be reconciled in its innermost self", says the Bishop Lwena to Fides http://fides.org/en/news/30153-AFRICA_ANGOLA_The_population_still_needs_to_be_reconciled_in_its_innermost_self_says_the_Bishop_Lwena_to_Fides (21 October 2011)

Life, God, Faith, Hope

“The attitude that living things are placed here for our benefit still dominates our culture, even where its underpinnings have disappeared. We now need, for purposes of scientific understanding, to find a less human-centered view of the natural world.”

Richard Dawkins book Climbing Mount Improbable

Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)

World, Understanding, Nature

“I am friendly with all the players of badminton but on court our attitude change as we prefer not to lose because of these relations.”

Sania Nehwal (1990) Indian badminton player

"Saina Nehwal Interview: 'The Last Year Has Been The Toughest Time Of My Life'" in The Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/saina-nehwal-_n_7246612 (23 May 2015)

Change

“One can have different attitudes to it, one can believe that the horsemen of the Apocalypse are already on their way and all hope is in Almighty God. However, one can still try to tone down this international situation.”

Dmitry Medvedev (1965) Russian Prime Minister and former president

"Putin crony invokes ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ amid Ukraine war" https://nypost.com/2022/06/03/dmitry-medvedev-invokes-apocalypse-amid-ukraine-war/, New York Post, 3 June 2022

God, Hope, Way

“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62

God, Nature

“Looking over the past two decades, we see close ties between gender-related attitudes and political ideology. A law seems to exist that sexism and heterosexism almost always travel alongside reactionary types of nationalism.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (2017)

Law, Travel, Past

“By the time we married, I realized I could survive without him, and he realized he didn’t want to survive without me. I liked that. That’s a good attitude to enter a marriage with.”

Kathryn Crosby (1933) American actress

Kathryn Crosby Interview: On Life with Bing Crosby and PBS' "American Masters" Documentary Featuring the Entertainment Icon's Career https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/kathryn-crosby-interview-on-life-with-bing-crosby-and-pbs-american-masters-documentary-featuring-the-entertainment-icons-career (1 December 2014)

Marriage, Time

“My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe — to see you, and to give a fuck — you've already blown it.”

Neal Stephenson book Zodiac

Source: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 5 (Taylor on riding a bike at night)

Cars, Light, Chance

“Maturity is not always reflected in age, but in an attitude of acceptance, appreciation and care for others.”

Titon Rahmawan

Age

“Recognition from others can be important in making choices or attitudes in life. But we should never depend on them for our entire lives. When we no longer get it easily we will destroy our own hopes.”

Titon Rahmawan

Life, Hope, Dependency

“You will be able to wear infinite masks, take on different attitudes and change your usual language, but you will always remain, inevitably, only what you prove yourself to be.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Potrete indossare infinite maschere, assumere atteggiamenti diversi e cambiare il vostro linguaggio abituale, ma rimarrete sempre, inevitabilmente, solo ciò che dimostrate di essere.
Source: prevale.net

Change

“Ignorance often hides behind an attitude.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L’ignoranza spesso si nasconde dietro un atteggiamento.
Source: prevale.net

Quotes about attitude page 13

Quotes about attitude
page 13