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.

- Karl Lagerfeld

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

- Walter Scott

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

- Luke Scott

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

- Walter Anderson

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

- Karl Popper

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

- Kathleen Turner

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

- Alan Watts

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

- Wade Boggs

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

- Imelda Staunton

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

- Ted Nugent

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

- Earl Nightingale

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

- Pope Benedict XVI

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

- Jesse Jackson

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

- Amy Adams

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

- Denis Waitley

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

- Steven Biko

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

- Eddie Vedder

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

- Ambrose Bierce

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

- Earl Nightingale

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.

- William James

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

- W. Clement Stone