Quotes About Outlook

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

Attitude makes the woman, darling!

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

Your attitude is a choice.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

It's only a tragedy if we treat it that way," Jessie said firmly.

but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.

When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. —Sydney J. Harris

I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.

This isn't a new idea. Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them." In the Book of Proverbs (23: 7) in the Old Testament you can find this passage: "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And even Shakespeare expressed a similar idea when he said: "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2).

Mental Filtering. You filter out or ignore the positives and focus entirely on the negatives. It's like a drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.

Magnification and Minimization. You exaggerate the negativity in a situation and minimize the positives. I call this the "binocular trick" since magnifying is like looking through a pair of binoculars (which makes everything much bigger), and minimizing is like looking through the opposite end (which makes everything much smaller).

It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design.

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;

How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.

O pessimista vê dificuldade em toda oportunidade. O otimista vê oportunidade em toda dificuldade.