Quotes About Outlook

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

The storm is the optimist's friend, but the pessimist's nightmare.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.

Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

If I stay negative in negative energy, that's what's gonna come back.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

You know you're only old if you want to be.

All of us, young and old, need to be reminded that our attitude is something we choose. "Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future; and if our speculations lead us to the conclusion that we have reached a point where we are not only able, but also required, by the law of our own being, to take a more active part in our personal evolution than heretofore, this discovery will afford us a new outlook upon life and widen our horizon with fresh interests and brightening hopes.

Para el puro, todo es puro; para el ruin todo es ruin.

it's not so much our technology, but what we believe, that will determine our fate.

If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

It's much easier when you start the season on a positive note and not have to fight from behind.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.