Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Dolan

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

Michel de Montaigne

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

Michel de Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michael Schur

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

Michael Redd

I work hard and have a winning attitude.

Michael Kinsley

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

Mark Twain

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

Mark Twain

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

Marianne Williamson

Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.

Marianne Williamson

By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

Marianne Williamson

The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

Maria Bamford

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

Margot Asquith

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

Maria Bartiromo

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Mark Victor Hansen

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

Mark Hoppus

I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.

Marianne Faithfull

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

Marianne Faithfull

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Miyamoto Musashi

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

Miyamoto Musashi

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

Mireille Guiliano

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

Psy

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Poppy Z. Brite

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Nelson Mandela

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

Nelson Mandela

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Kourtney Kardashian

My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.

Kingsley Amis

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

Kinky Friedman

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

Oprah Winfrey

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.