Quotes About Outlook

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.

I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out.

There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

A war is not lost until you consider it lost.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

I've seen enough change in my lifetime to know that despair is not only self-defeating, it is unrealistic.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying to mambo.

Circumstances can never be good or bad. Only the individual man can be good or bad.

The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good happens, it's such a bonus.

Sometimes I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I'm in a good mood. It's like everyone else.

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.