Quotes About Outlook

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Like her creator, Hattie is a terminal optimist; what else is there to say?

Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him, and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

Life is like a picture, you know. It's all in the way you frame it.

La gente que llega tarde suele ser increíblemente optimista.

Adeline, you make things so much harder for yourself than you have to," she said. "Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised man was at its lowest, morality at its weakest, and the general outlook most hopeless. Religious control gave us heresy hunts, and Jew hunts, burnings for witchcraft, and magic in the place of medicine. It gave us the Inquisition and the auto da fé, the fires of Smithfield and the night of St. Bartholomew.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.

Look at the bright side — at least Mondays only happen once a week.

I try to start every morning with a mug of cheer and an over-easy attitude.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read.

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

Optimism... The instinct to lie.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Optimism... Fatty degeneration of intelligence.

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

I like people who smile when it's raining.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.