Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viktor E. Frankl

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

Viktor E. Frankl

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

Vanna Bonta

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Vanna Bonta

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

V. S. Naipaul

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Taylor Swift

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

Sophie Kinsella

You're working for me cut out the attitude.

Stephen Levine

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

Stephen Malkmus

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

Stephen King

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

Stan Lee

MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE , AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON.

Taylor Swift

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

Stanley Kubrick

If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

Soren Kierkegaard

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Marcus Aurelius

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Marcus Aurelius

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games].

Shane Warne

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Natalie Massenet

Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

Natalie Goldberg

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."

Tatyana Tolstaya

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Tavis Smiley

What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.

Tara Brach

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Tony Robbins

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

Tony Robbins

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

Toni Servillo

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Tony Blair

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

Robert Anthony

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Ringo Starr

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.