Quotes About Outlook

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I am an optimist, but I am an optimist who carries a raincoat.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

It's my perspective: gloom and doom.

What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.

It takes work to shift your focus from the smudges on the window to the view outside.

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.

Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

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.

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 a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said. "Then at least you'll never be disappointed.

Could be worse!

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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