Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

Arthur Ashe

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

Azar Nafisi

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

Azar Nafisi

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Ayn Rand

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: 'I can do it better than you,' but simply: 'I can do it.' What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

Ayn Rand

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Bertrand Russell

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

Benito Mussolini

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

Benito Mussolini

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

Benjamin Disraeli

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Benjamin Disraeli

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Ben Feldman

The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.

Ben Feldman

Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.

Ben E. King

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

C. S. Lewis

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

We've talked about how important it is to stay focused for games during the week. We're going to have to have the same kind of attitude like we did (at the UNLV tournament).

Burton Rascoe

I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.

Bryant H. McGill

Your attitudes contain your future.

Bryant H. McGill

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Celia Green

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

Catherine Ponder

If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.

Carroll Shelby

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Carson McCullers

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Alan Garner

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

Alan Dershowitz

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Alain Ducasse

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Mentally, we could have fallen apart, but this team doesn't do that. We could have had the attitude that we're snake-bit, but we didn't.

My life has changed because of watching my diet, exercising, just having a better attitude in life.

My first question would be about the propriety of tattoos, period. We have a responsibility of taking care of the body God has given us and maintaining it. I'm not sure that shows the best attitude toward the value of human beings.

One of the things we talked about is not this attitude we're not just happy to be there. We're going there for business, and we're trying to win some games.

One of the things I try to do is examine how attitudes regarding that conflict have evolved over time, ... Because it says a lot about how Americans treat those issues that were a part of that even today.

Obviously, we feel better going into the postseason. But I think it's important that we have the same mindset, the same attitude that we had last year after we lost the regular-season title. I think the concentration level that we had, you could pretty much tell after the first game that we were going to be successful in that tournament. It had that feeling to it. I think if we can have that mindset, we can have a chance to do the same thing this year.