Quotes About Outlook

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we overlabor; our outlook never really urban, never rural either, we enlarge and linger at the same time, as Alice both changed and remained in her story.

Good temper is an estate for life.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

The postman said there were two ways of meeting experience—you could expect pain or you could expect happiness. "Now, I'm going to look on the bright side until I know to the contrary," he said. "I'm going to look on the bright side, and keep saying everything's going to come out the way I want it to.

If you have realistically low expectations, you'll end up pleased in most circumstances.

who like the taste of being hurt. That makes you lower than the mice and the roaches. At least they try to save their skins, they got a normal outlook. But you, you're just a clown that ain't funny. And that's a sad picture, that's the saddest picture of all. Like on the outside it's the stupid crazy smile and inside it's a gloomy place where all they play is the blues. He frowned.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

In her opinion he was an intellectual who had consciously decided to see the world in a positive light,

Americans go into situations expecting things to go well. When they don't, we have meltdowns. The French go into situations expecting things not to go in their favor, so they're prepared when they don't.

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.