There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

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

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

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.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

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

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

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

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

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

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

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

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

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

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

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

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

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

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

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.

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

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.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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.

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

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

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.

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.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

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.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.