Quotes About Outlook

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

What is a positive attitude? The simple definition is the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Interestingly, it's also the definition of a negative attitude.

Gratitude allows you to raise the energy you meet each situation with.

If you focus on the negative aspects of the more challenging things in your life, it will just lower your frequency, keep you in pain and resentment, attract more negativity to you, very possibly make you sick, and very definitely make you crabby.

Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

Keep your sunny side up

I don't differentiate between optimism and pessimism and am at quite a loss as to which of the two characterises me. When I awake each morning I thank the lord he did not take my soul during the night. If harm befalls me during the night, I thank him that it was no worse. So which am I, a pessimist or an optimist?

They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.

We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us

L'ideale è un cauto ottimismo. Ma nel mio caso si tratta piuttosto di cauto pessimismo.

No one should have to look back to see the bright future ahead of them.

It was the way people thought: what you couldn't do anything about you learned to accept.