Quotes About Outlook

Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.

2) for the reasons sketched above, and developed more fully in the text to follow, I do not think pessimism is the only possible outlook on the universe, but merely the one that is currently ubiquitous;

Trivial, he echoed. Perhaps. Then again, maybe it's all in the way you look at it

There ought to be a view around the world From such a mountain

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Whether one has a correct outlook on the revolution or not is revealed particularly at a time of severe trials. People reveal their true nature in adverse circumstances.

Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

Mrs Lynde says, Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

See? Things are already looking promising.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Human happiness depends less on objective conditions and more on our own expectations.

Happiness doesn't care how you get there.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Positive thinking won't allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.

A great attitude becomes a great mood, which becomes a great day, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then.

A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.