Quotes About Outlook

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

She should have been used to disappointment by now, but pessimism wasn't normally her bag. Lisa would say Sami was a discouraged optimist. An oxymoron for sure.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." —Harry Truman Even

Lawrence was an earnest, but not a serious, writer—if by serious we mean one whose outlook on life is intellectually or morally worthy of our consideration.

It is curious how people's attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It is as if policy determined facts and not facts policy. If people are against big government they tend to deny that there is any such phenomenon; if they are for big government they tend to regard it as established fact and equate those who deny its existence with Holocaust deniers.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be." That makes it clear as glass.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

I'm not a negative person.

Why choose to be negative when you don't have to?

I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

You always try to take the positives and negatives out of the game.

I try not to dwell on the negatives.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

I feel negativity is not to be paid attention to.

I can never complain about the situation that I'm in. I try to put everything into perspective.

I never expect anything. The more good things that happen the better, but I never expect anything.