Quotes About Outlook

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

You don't have to be happy to smile.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

If your attitude affect's your point of view, and your point of view affects your emotions, and your emotions reinforce your attitude, then why not choose a positive attitude?

The health of the eye demands a horizon.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Attitude is something that comes to your rescue when you're looking for help from external sources.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.