Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Muir

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

Francois Rabelais

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

George C. Williams

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

George C. Marshall

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Christina Aguilera

That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

Christina Aguilera

Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

Christian Louboutin

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Christian Louboutin

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Christian Louboutin

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

Chris Rock

I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. The Jeffersons was a lot better. Good Times was way funnier. Sanford and Son. Now, though, everyone thinks we're equal, so we submit the same s... that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won't air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good.

Chris Murray

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

Chris Hadfield

There's really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.

Gerard Way

I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Hans Hofmann

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

George Washington

If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

George Washington

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

George Orwell

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:

George Nelson

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Right attitudes produces right action

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Norman Douglas

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Norman Cousins

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

Norm MacDonald

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

Robert Holden

Happiness is a way of travelling and not a final destination.

Robert Holden

The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

Rick Santelli

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

The frame of mind of the players is positive. They did not want that result, but they knew that a situation like that was bound to come. The good thing is that they kept disciplined and the attitude was good throughout.

Edward de Bono

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Edie Sedgwick

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Accept the present moment without judgement.

Kate Bosworth

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.