50 Bad Attitude Quotes To Make You Think And Improve

As the title suggests, here we have thought-provoking bad attitude quotes. 

You might have heard the phrase ‘attitude is life,’ which is true in various aspects.

A bad attitude can prove to be devastating for your life.

Managing your attitude is quite important for a healthy social relationship.

The quotes listed below give you an idea of how a person with a bad attitude can damage his/her relationships with others.

In addition to the quotes, we have also discussed bad attitude and its causes.

So, let’s start!

What is a bad attitude?

Bad attitude refers to a situation in which a person inappropriately behaves with others. 

This type of attitude involves a person interacting in a non-cooperative or rude way.

Here are the major signs of a bad attitude: 

• Aggressiveness
• Arrogance
• Belligerence 
• Bluntness 
• Callousness 

Effects of a bad attitude

Since we have discussed what a bad attitude is, it’s time to learn about the effects of such behavior. 

Some of the most noticeable effects of a bad attitude on our life include the following:

• A bad attitude is the biggest hurdle that keeps you away from success in life
• It prevents you from developing a good perspective regarding any aspect of life
• A bad attitude deprives you of enjoying things that people with normal behavior enjoy
• Improper or bad attitude limits social exposure, which could prevent you from having exciting relationships
• A bad attitude promotes situations like depression, loneliness, and stress

Major causes of a bad attitude

A bad attitude is considered a component of a person’s temperament, which means a person can misbehave with others without any particular reason.

However, here are the most noteworthy causes of the bad attitude:

• A person facing emotional discomfort can develop a bad attitude
• Environment plays a key role in shaping one’s habits and behavior, which in turn influences our attitude 
• Social inequalities or financial situations may also be a few other causes of bad attitude

Top 10 bad attitude quotes

Here are a few of the most popular bad attitude quotes. 

1. “I’ve got a bad attitude.” — Greg Hardy

2. “Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” — Terry Bradshaw 

3. “A bad attitude is the only true handicap.” — Scott Hamilton

4. “A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.” — Payne Stewart

5. “Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.” — Bill Walsh

6. “I’ve been fired five times for having a bad attitude.” — Meg Rosoff

7. “Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.” — Joyce Meyer

8. “I wouldn’t date a girl with a bad attitude. I’m ‘Mr. Positive.’” — Nick Jonas

9. “In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.” — John C. Maxwell

10. “Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?” — Rachel Caine

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11. “Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.” — Lady Gaga

12. “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

13. “And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.” — James Patterson 

14. “For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.” — Woody Allen 

15. “Attitude makes a lot of difference in one’s life. Good attitudes make life beautiful. A bad attitude makes life a doomed one.” — Unknown

16. “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 

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

Bad attitude quotes that are intense

Here are some intense bad attitude quotes for you. Read these bad attitude quotes carefully, as they have a strong message to convey. 

21. “A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude.” — Cassandra Clare

22. “A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don’t change it, you’ll never go anywhere.” — Unknown

23. “But I was club captain at Leeds, club captain at Fulham. If you’ve got a bad attitude you’re not getting those honors.” — Ross McCormack 

24. “Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren’t well treated.” — Mitch Kapor 

25. “Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let’s save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren’t advancing the cause.” — Anne Hathaway

26. “Just because I don’t smile a lot, people think, ‘Ah, yeah. He must have a bad attitude.’ But if you don’t know me, you don’t know me. That was the problem. My face is just serious.” — Wilfried Zaha

27. “You can’t be Allen Iverson on a football team. And even Iverson got run out of Philadelphia when he was still a spectacular talent because the Sixers got tired of the headache and his bad attitude.” — Jason Whitlock

28. “Change your habit and rethink your view of your life. For example, if you are enclosed by negative individuals who continually contribute to your bad attitude, it’s the opportunity to narrow or settle your relationship with them.” — Unknown 

29. “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 

30. “I’ve certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. I’ve been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I’ve accepted a part since then because I’ve been given much better parts in films.” — Hugh Grant

Bad attitude quotes for motivation 

The following quotes can serve as a motivation for most readers.  

31. “A bad attitude assures our life to be stressful and less comforting than it must mean.” — Unknown

32. “Bad attitudes often come from unsettled things, stewing in your heart, stirred up feelings and emotions.” — Ritu Ghatourey

33. “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

34. “When we’re lost in a bad attitude, it can be difficult to locate the gateway. Every day, see for things to be thankful for. It’ll set things within the aspect and make you understand this isn’t all there is to your life.” — Unknown

35. “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.” — Thelma Wells 

36. “In terms of work I’ve always had a Bad Attitude in that I won’t work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don’t know if that’s an Asperger’s thing or not, I think it’s just being reasonable.” — Bram Cohen

37. “I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude. That’s all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain’t scared to do her thing.” — LL Cool J

38. “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 exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn’t get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts” — Stephen Gaski

39. “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

40. “This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widget-making industry. Books are reformulated as ‘product’ – like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap – and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.” — Suzette Haden Elgin

Some other bad attitude quotes 

Below are a few of the other bad attitude quotes that you might like. 

41. “Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.” — Katy Mixon 

42. “You think I’m going to be late because you’ve got tweezers and a bad attitude?” — Alonzo Bodden 

43. “When you have a bad attitude, you become indolent to work after what you desire in life.” — Unknown

44. “I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.” — John Wall 

45. “If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that’s terrible, you start with a bad attitude.” — Manu Ginobili 

46. “You can call it what you want: bad attitude, immature. You can say, ‘He’s a thug.’ But I’m a competitor.” — DeMarcus Cousins

47. “Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team’s success, but bad attitudes guarantee it’s a failure.” — John C. Maxwell 

48. “Once you hold a bad attitude, you assume defeat and failure. And that expectation shifts you into a magnet for mess and failure.” — Unknown 

49. “If you’re going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won’t play good anyways.” — Jason Day

50. “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

Which of these bad attitude quotes is your favorite? 

After reading these bad attitude quotes and sayings, you might have understood why it is essential to interact with others politely and affectionately. 

A bad attitude can’t be justified for any reason, as it could devastate society.

It is imperative to avoid exhibiting a bad attitude. 

To propagate positivity, make sure to share these quotes. 

If you have found your favorite quote, let us know in the comments section below.