The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

I love women with attitude.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.