Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

James E. Faust

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

Chris Evert

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Geoff Ward

Bio-Colossus is great because it mirrors the attitude of the university itself: our feet are on the ground but our head and our ideas are in the clouds.

Charice Pempengco

Beyonce is one of my inspirations. Her attitude, her style, her voice... she's perfect.

Andie MacDowell

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

John Ortberg

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

Doug Dexheimer

Todd played really well stepping up. He has a good attitude and I thought he did a good job all around.

Tanith Lee

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Michael Fox

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Laura Lippman

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

John Updike

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Mason Cooley

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Richard Dawkins

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

William Clark

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Ryan Gosling

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Ben Elton

You think I look like a teletubby?

Ben Folds

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.