These bad attitude quotes will inspire you. A bad attitude is a feeling, manner, or disposition that is not cooperative, optimistic or constructive.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bad attitude quotes, bad attitude sayings, and bad attitude proverbs.
Best Bad Attitude Quotes
- “Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” ~ Scott Hamilton
- “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you’re an asshole” ~ John Lydon
- “Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you, and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” ~ Will Smith
- “You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.” ~ Leon Brown
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“In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.” ~ Bill Walsh
- “Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.” ~ Strive Masiyiwa
- “The only disability in life is having a bad attitude” ~ Oscar Pistorius
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“I wouldn’t date a girl with a bad attitude. I’m ‘Mr. Positive.” ~ Nick Jonas
- “People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.” ~ Stedman Graham
- “Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team’s success, but bad attitudes guarantee it’s failure.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “Everything you go through can be a lesson for you. Lack of forgiveness can manifest itself in different ways -in some lives it can be through sickness in someone else’s life it can be through a bad attitude -or maybe through torn relationships and being angry all the time. I don’t know how unforgiveness will manifest itself in your life, but what I can tell you is: it isn’t worth it! All of us have done something we need forgiveness for.” ~ Thelma Wells
- “It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
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“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions whereas negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.” ~ Barbara Fredrickson
- “If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion, and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.” ~ Pema Chodron
- “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” ~ W. Clement Stone
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“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” ~ Hugh Downs
- “Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I’m of the belief that you should fight them.” ~ Ruth Westheimer
- “It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.” ~ Tallulah Bankhead
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“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.” ~ William James
- “…if you catalog grudges, anything looks bad.” ~ Anne Tyler
- “I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” ~ Martha Washington
- “Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.” ~ Leon Brown
- “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.” ~ Ken Keyes Jr.
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“I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.” ~ Vera Farmiga
- “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “The people that have looked out for me and helped to steer me in the right direction, I just can’t thank them enough. So, the drive, a lot of times it just comes down to looking around at the people who love and believe in you and realizing that you owe it to them. Even if I have a bad attitude on a certain occasion, I owe it to all these people around me to just come out and drive, push, and try to make this thing the best that I can” ~ Cody Johnson
- “Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” ~ Terry Bradshaw
- “Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences – be they good or bad.” ~ Dallin H. Oaks
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“I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.” ~ Mike Todd
- “Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.” ~ Lady Gaga
- “You don’t have to be sick to get better! You don’t have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.” ~ Thomas D
- “I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.” ~ L. David Mech
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“And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion-challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.” ~ James Patterson
- “Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.” ~ Charles Fillmore
- “The majority of my fans have been amazing & supportive. But I am in shock and ashamed of many of my ‘fans’ who are standing firm in their stance that I am ‘less than’ them because of my sexual orientation. To those who feel this way: I gladly show you the door and wish you well on your journey.” ~ Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- “Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption, and the ice Capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It’s what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.” ~ George Carlin
- “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.” ~ Brian Tracy
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“For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.” ~ Woody Allen
- “I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don’t believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.” ~ Terry Bradshaw
- “Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” ~ Irving Berlin
- “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” ~ William James , bad attitude quotes life
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“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.” ~ David Ambrose
- “There’s no love in my songs. There’s just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that’s intentional, that’s what I like. I love the whole idea of Motown. Their idea was to sing how down on their luck they were, but the song implied hope that it would get better. I liked that idea, and I wanted to go even further with it.” ~ Memory Tapes
- “A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “Hey, pretty thing,” he said. “What’s in the bag?” “Holy water,” said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he’d been conjured up like a genie. A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. “Oooh, a Shadowhunter,” said the vampire. “Scary.” With a wink he melted back into the crowd. “Vampires are such prima donnas,” Magnus sighed from the doorway. “Honestly, I don’t know why I have these parties.” “Because of your cat,” Clary reminded him. Magnus perked up. “That’s true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “You can’t bring tweezers on an airplane. If I’m on a plane and you try to hijack it with tweezers, I’ll whip your ass, man. You think I’m going to be late because you’ve got tweezers and a bad attitude?” ~ Alonzo Bodden
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“The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?” ~ Rachel Caine
- “The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it’s better shared with friends. You can’t really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarate your stone. Stolen grass doesn’t get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts” ~ Stephen Gaskin
- “A bad attitude is the only true handicap.” ~ Scott Hamilton
- “Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually, every kind of toxin works its way out.” ~ Kristin Armstrong
- “It just goes to show that what one person considers a “bad attitude” might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one’s mental and physical endurance.” ~ Meg Cabot
