Quotes About Outlook

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Disappointments, a jaded outlook on life—right through to willful sin and pride—are all devastating to our spiritual life. Let's let the warning of the hardhearted remind us to stay open to anything and everything God has to say to us. We do this by staying in His Word, by welcoming His presence as we worship Him, by serving others, and by simply taking the time to listen as He speaks.

If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?

pessimists live longer! Good news is much easier to believe than bad.

What's the good news? -Pardon? -You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way. -There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.

The difference between our outlook and the Socialist outlook is the difference between the ladder and the queue. We are for the ladder. Let all try their best to climb. They are for the queue.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure

Budd Schulberg was a social democrat; his discovery through Pete Corridan of the labor-friendly papal social encyclicals transformed his outlook, as it did that of many others—including Catholics—who were unaware that the church possessed a semi-progressive social teaching.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

Roosevelt's irrepressible optimism, his tendency to expect the best outcome in any circumstance, provided the keystone strength that carried him through this traumatic experience.

The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.

why doesn't anything end happily? Because, said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.

there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.

everything can work out fine if you just plant your feet on the ground and look straight ahead. Nothing is a tragedy unless you buy it a suit of clothes and give it a free meal.

Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather,

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.

Race nodded. He had only met George's wife once. He had thought her a singularly lovely nitwit—but certainly not a melancholic type.

nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul.

The more people respond positively to you, the easier it is to maintain a good attitude and joyful outlook.

When you are a happy person, you'll influence others to behave positively toward you.

I think I'm more European in personality.