Quotes About Outlook

Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it.

And I knew that was not a bad thing at all, not for anyone, in any life.

Optimism is a practiced choice.

You've got to be responsible for your own happiness - you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

Another piece of appropriated maternal wisdom I remember from this time was this: "If you lower your expectations, you can't be disappointed." This struck me as a dismal approach to life, whether for a forty-five-year-old mother or a twenty-year-old daughter.

There can be a complacency to failure as much as a complacency to success.

Mas o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.

Ma o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

dwelling on life's restrictions didn't do much for anyone's morale.

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. Their personal demeanors. Their world outlook and political beliefs. One need only go to a high school reunion to verify the theory.

Claire had never thought of herself as an expert in male behavior, but Paul had a point, and not just about men. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. Their personal demeanors. Their world outlook and political beliefs. One need only go to a high school reunion to verify the theory.

men. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. Their personal demeanors. Their world outlook and political beliefs.

Must you always see the dark side of everything?' Julia said. 'Someone has to,' Jackson said. 'Yes, but does it have to be you?' Apparently, yes. It did.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.