Quotes About Outlook

Calamities are only calamities if you define them as such; in reality there are only events and all events can be useful.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

we take our victories where we find them, and accept our defeats with grace and patience.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

Don't take life seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

No idea about weather these days.

Yeah," said Jack. "No idea about weather these days.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing

Trebuie s? ai un spirit pesimist; cel optimist e lamentabil, grotesc ?i stupid. "Gânde?te pozitiv!" Cum adic?, s? gândesc în mod deliberat fals, numai ca s? am o stare pozitiv?, care s? plac? cui ?i cui s? fac? un bine? Trebuie s? fii apt s? prive?ti realitatea exact a?a cum e, frumoas? sau pocit?.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Negative energy is wasteful.

If some baboons just happen to be good at seeing water holes as half full instead of half empty... we should be able to as well.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Once you've had success, I think you can go one of two ways. You can either have that success and go downhill, or you can use it to build off of it and continue going upward.

I think 'everything sucks' is too often leaned upon as a comedic stance. It's a really easy and pretty weak perspective.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I am a bad planner, I cannot really plan my future, so I am keeping my expectations very grounded.