Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Josh McDowell

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Josh Radnor

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

Kate Millett

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.

Kate Moss

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

Kate Moss

Just remember that, ultimately, dressing is always about attitude, feeling comfortable and confidence

Lela Rose

Style is an attitude; a trend is just another thing to follow.

Laurel Lea

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Lars Ulrich

I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

Lance Secretan

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Langston Hughes

I will not take "but" for an answer.

Kwame Nkrumah

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

John Kendrick Bangs

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

John Kendrick Bangs

A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.

John D. Rockefeller

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Lionel Trilling

The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.

Linus Torvalds

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

Leon Battista Alberti

A man can do all things if he will.

Leo Tolstoy

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Peter L. Berger

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.