Quotes About Outlook

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.

One positive thought can change your whole day.

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

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' An optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

Misogyny is simply a symptom of how stupid and self-serving we all are. As is racism. As is any outlook that lumps people into pejorative categories (like 'neckbeards'), that urges or insinuates hatred of people based on simplistic identifications.

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos.

Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.

have always been an optimist, because pessimists seldom have any fun and usually fret their way into one of the horrible fates they spend their lives worrying about.

Is this the sunniest of sunny days or isn't it?" "What?" "You've got eyes, child. Look around, look around!" "Sure, it's sunny." "Then you be sunny, too, and things will turn out better than if you aren't.

An abundance of pessimists might bend reality to Armageddon just by expecting

pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative.

As for the butter-side-up day: Each morning, he makes one extra slice of toast with breakfast, lays it on the kitchen table, and in a contrived-casual way, he knocks it to the floor. If it lands butter side up, he eats it with pleasure, confident that the day will be good from end to end. If it lands butter side down, however, Malcolm throws the toast away, wipes up the butter, and goes about his day with heightened awareness of potential danger.