I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

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.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

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.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

If you’re going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don’t love it, then we don’t need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Rock music is niche.

No, there’s something about the sing-song cadence of children’s music that has its place in rock.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

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

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.