Quotes About Outlook

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

I can wake up crazy or normal; it depends.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

You would think I'm mad or depressed all the time, but that's not the case at all.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.

If you think people are against you and that you're a target, things will start appearing that way. I just go about my day, and I don't think anyone is out to get me.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

See, Matt, there's two kinds of people," he went on. "And the difference is in how they see themselves. One guy says to himself, 'I'm the boss of circumstances.' The other guy says, 'I'm the victim of circumstances.'...And you know what?...They're both right.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

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

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requirement.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.