Quotes About Outlook

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

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

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Attitude is the "little" thing that makes the big difference.

Age 50. — At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.