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Attitude Quotes — 108 Attitude Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

It has been a grand journey, well worth making once.

Winston Churchill · Churchill near the end, asked how he looked back on his life.

I could always flop into bed and go to sleep after the day’s work was done. I slept sound and awoke refreshed, and had no feelings except appetite to grapple with whatever the morning’s boxes might bring.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “In a long life I have had many ups and downs. During all the war soon to come and in its darkest times I never had any trouble in sleeping.…I could always flop into bed and go to sleep after the day’s work was done.…I slept sound and awoke refreshed, and had no feelings except appetite to grapple with whatever the morning’s boxes might bring.” · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)

I'll be back.

The Terminator · Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg in The Terminator (1984) · Said to the police desk sergeant who tells him Sarah Connor is still giving her statement and offers him a bench to wait on; he comes back by driving a car through the front of the station.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believe in regular running and calisthenics.

Attributed to Winston Churchill · A line long told of Churchill, with no record of where he said it.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon · The source reads: “Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.” · Farewell address to members of the administration on leaving office (August 9, 1974)

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

Winston Churchill · Article “Hobbies”, Pall Mall, December 1925

In the best of fortunes or the worst, in the most dangerous and hopeless position or on the crest of the wave, he was always the same tough, cheery gentleman and sportsman.

Winston Churchill · The World Crisis (1923 to 1931)

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill · Churchill in 1941.

I wish indeed that we could both have been victorious—but that would be no foundation for the excitements and liveliness of the Turf.

Winston Churchill · Recorded in the official biography by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert, 20 May 1951

I have a tendency, against which I should, perhaps, be on my guard, to swim against the stream.

Winston Churchill · Martin Gilbert, 9 October 1940

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

Winston Churchill · The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)

The smile on the faces of the people … is symbolic of one of the greatest assets of the American. He is friendly, self-confident, optimistic—and not envious.

Albert Einstein · From Impressions of the U.S.A., about 1931.

The optimist sees the doughnut, but the pessimist sees the hole.

McLandburgh Wilson · The source reads: “'Twixt the optimist and pessimist The difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut But the pessimist sees the hole.”

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren.

Laurence Sterne

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Michel de Montaigne · The source reads: “I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.” · Montaigne on not fussing about death, from the essay that says to philosophize is to learn to die.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Winston Churchill · Churchill in the Commons.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · From the Harvard address that Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's intellectual declaration of independence.

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I have been happier every year since I became a man.

Winston Churchill · My Early Life (1930)

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx · His telegram resigning from a Hollywood club, first reported by columnist Erskine Johnson in October 1949 about the Friars Club and retold in his memoir.

Oh, no, I wouldn’t call it that. They have had a very hard time.

Winston Churchill · On being told the 1945 election defeat was ingratitude

Looking back with after-knowledge and increasing years, I seem to have been too ready to undertake tasks which were hazardous or even forlorn.

Winston Churchill · The World Crisis (1923 to 1931)

My tastes are simple; I am easily satisfied with the best.

Attributed to Winston Churchill · Churchill's line on himself, as his bodyguard and his family told it.

I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.

Rita Rudner · From her stand up.

For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else—and I cannot believe that the human race will not find its way through the problems that confront it, although they are separated by a measureless gulf from any they have known before….Thus we may by patience, courage, and in orderly progression reach the shelter of a calmer and kindlier age.” · Guildhall, London, 9 November 1954

Attitude Quotes

It has been a grand journey, well worth making once.

I could always flop into bed and go to sleep after the day’s work was done. I slept sound and awoke refreshed, and had no feelings except appetite to grapple with whatever the morning’s boxes might bring.

I'll be back.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believe in regular running and calisthenics.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

In the best of fortunes or the worst, in the most dangerous and hopeless position or on the crest of the wave, he was always the same tough, cheery gentleman and sportsman.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I wish indeed that we could both have been victorious—but that would be no foundation for the excitements and liveliness of the Turf.

I have a tendency, against which I should, perhaps, be on my guard, to swim against the stream.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

The smile on the faces of the people … is symbolic of one of the greatest assets of the American. He is friendly, self-confident, optimistic—and not envious.

The optimist sees the doughnut, but the pessimist sees the hole.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I have been happier every year since I became a man.

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Oh, no, I wouldn’t call it that. They have had a very hard time.

Looking back with after-knowledge and increasing years, I seem to have been too ready to undertake tasks which were hazardous or even forlorn.

My tastes are simple; I am easily satisfied with the best.

I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.

For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

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