Quotes About Outlook

Life is a reflection of what you think. If your thoughts are negative, the world you see will be the same.

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

Good temper is an estate for life.

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

My outlook on life is so much clearer.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.

Ronny's religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form, and condemned as 'weakening' any attempt to understand them.

During this Lent term Maurice came out as a theologian. It was not humbug entirely. He believed that he believed, and felt genuine pain when anything he was accustomed to met criticism—the pain that masquerades among the middle classes as Faith. It was not Faith, being inactive. It gave him no support, no wider outlook. It didn't exist till opposition touched it, when it ached like a useless nerve.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.

There are millions of human beings who live narrow, darkened, frustrated lives—who live defensively—simply because they take a defensive, doubtful attitude toward themselves and, as a result, toward life in general. A person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences. When those experiences come—as they must, because of his attitude—they tend to reinforce his poor attitude, thereby bringing more problems, and so on.

A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can't go anywhere until you change it.

Attitude is a choice. Choose wisely, as it will impact your relationships and achievements.