Quotes About Outlook

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

Things always look better in the morning.

I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.

The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Positive things happen to positive people.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.