Attitude quotes

Attitude

4.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

4.7K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside attitude — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Thinking 95.1K quotes People 100.4K quotes Men 68.6K quotes Inspirational 18.9K quotes Believe 31K quotes Mean 28K quotes

Quote collection

Attitude quotes (page 20 of 237)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Attitude

"…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people."

Attitude Exercise Color
Read quote 18 likes
Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Attitude

"Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time."

Attitude Inspiring Life And Love
Read quote 18 likes
Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
Attitude

"What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!""

Artist Differences Attitude
Read quote 18 likes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Attitude

"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."

Men Attitude Keys
Read quote 18 likes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Attitude

"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning."

Morning Attitude Angel
Read quote 18 likes
Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Attitude

"One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them."

Mind Attitude Forgiving
Read quote 18 likes
Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
Attitude

"I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!"

Girl Attitude Baby
Read quote 18 likes
Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Attitude

"We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude."

Attitude White Brother
Read quote 18 likes
Jeremiah Wright Pastor, Author
Attitude

"It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind."

Believe Law Attitude
Read quote 18 likes
Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Attitude

"It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude."

Attitude Easy Hours
Read quote 18 likes
Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
Attitude

"Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom."

Past Attitude Fire
Read quote 17 likes