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Quotes About Outlook

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.
~ Jim Wallis
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
~ Gary Marcus
[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.
~ Elvis Presley
If you lose hope, you're just not looking far enough ahead.
~ Joe Tye
It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.
~ William John Locke
Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.
~ Jim George
Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
~ English proverb
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
~ Patrick Stewart
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
~ George Carlin
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~ George F. Will
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
~ Elizabeth Inchbald
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
~ Bel Kaufman
I don't pull out because... it's not my problem.
~ Jim Norton
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.
~ Charles W. Field
You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.
~ Robert Quillen
Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.
~ Joel Goodman
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
~ Michel de Montaigne
You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.
~ Shannon L. Alder
If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.
~ Markus Zusak
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
~ Charlie Chaplin
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
~ Mary Engelbreit