Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Green

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

You play football with kids, not Xs and Os, so we're going to concentrate on them. We'll focus on mental attitude a little bit, and we'll try to bounce back from it.

This is fantastic to have this happen his senior year. He had a different attitude.

They had a very hardened attitude of African-Americans, ... Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis.

B. F. Skinner

They had a really fun time. The other teams commented on how great our attitude was.

They had a good attitude today, but we have to hit better. We only had four hits.

Jerry Sloan

They didn't look like they had any energy and I think they were upset with me more than anything else. They had a little bit of an attitude about what's going on out there. It's kind of disappointing that those things would crop up now when you have an opportunity to get into the playoffs.

Greg Schiano

There were points in the game where the momentum could have swung in the other direction. It was the first time the entire team had a fighting, chopping wood attitude the entire game.

It's been shown that people who have a more positive attitude are healthier, and they live longer.

Jim Larranaga

It's been really great for these players ... to see not only the university community embrace them but the whole country. I think we all feel like it would be great to be the underdog and to be the overachiever. I think we can all identify with that attitude and personality. This team has embraced that.

It's just an attitude a team develops. You can't hide a bad defender. Everybody on the floor has to do their part.

It's just confidence, a positive attitude and practice.

Drew Brees

It seems like at Purdue and then the Chargers and then to here -- it's kind of a situation where maybe they had a couple of rough seasons. The community was just craving that winner. And maybe there was a change, like a new coach, a new attitude and you're just able to step in and become a winner. That's what we did at Purdue and at San Diego, and now we plan on doing that here.

Jay Haas

It's a relaxed feeling for me. Obviously, I'm playing well so I have an attitude to be patient and let it happen.

Peter Wright

It's a tournament, so anything could happen. There's a lot of tennis over four days. My attitude is looking at it one match at a time, but several of our guys have an opportunity to win it.

Jack Zipes

It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.

It was fun. We go in as the No. 7 seed and Ripon's on this winning streak; I think their record was 24-2 and we had the attitude of playing good defense to take away their strengths. The kids played really well and they did it with great defense.

It was the character and the attitude of the players that made the difference. They didn't give in to fatigue or lack of production. It was a pleasure to go to the park every day because these kids wanted to play.

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.

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I am always curious when individuals insist that what they watch on television or in movie theaters doesn't affect them. . . . Are we really to believe that hours, leading to years, of television viewing will not affect attitudes about everything from family life to appropriate sexual relations?

Gordon B. Hinckley

We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service. It is hard, and at times discouraging, work. Last year our missionaries averaged sixty-seven hours a week in actual proselyting effort. Let those who contemplate missions realize that they will work as they have never worked before, and that they may expect such joy as they have not previously known.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Gerhard Schroder

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Geraldine Brooks

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Georges St-Pierre

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.