Quotes About Outlook

Your attitude is a mirror of your believes.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and attitudes do color life...but you have been given the mind to choose what the colors will be.

A diagnosis is not a prognosis unless you let it be.

Hume does not, then, defend his view by using his reason: it is rather his happy acceptance of the upshot of the balance between his philosophical reflections and the psychological propensities of his nature. This underlying attitude guides his life and regulates his outlook on society and the world. And it is this attitude that leads me to refer to his view as a fideism of nature. (See T:179, 183, 184, 187.)

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

The whole weight of our economy and its job prospects is built on the outlook that people are empty.

Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

When the researchers asked adults in the United States, Canada, and India whether life is long or short, and whether it's easy or hard, the North Americans were no more sanguine than the Indians despite their statistical advantages in life expectancy and income.

Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of life, even if it means hurting your eyes.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining.

We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

your present is your future.' I choose not to tarnish what may come.

Many people had a fatalistic outlook, a conviction that life's vicissitudes were predetermined by fate, which must have been useful in such a violent age, when the world was very uncertain.

Disregard whatever that you've lost. Just regard the leftover. And most importantly, hopefully look forward to what is yet to come i.e. the best.

Don't have negative thoughts over things that you can't control.

Negative mind or mindset will hardly give you positive result. Thus, you've got to be positive-minded rather than negative-minded, come what may.

Positive thinking and positive speaking do pay off i.e. they often yield good results unlike negative thinking and negative speaking that often yield bad results. Thus, introspect your thoughts and you better watch your mouth as well. I mean, think, speak and act just positively at all times. ~Emeasoba George

Thinking negatively rather than positively is synonymous with sowing tares and yet expecting to harvest maize or corn someday. Yes! that is just what it is like. Therefore, introspect your thoughts and then think positively at all times and never negatively. -Emeasoba George

What it means to think positively is just figure on i.e. having an attitude or a lifestyle of always expecting something positive to happen or to be the case. Have you been thinking negatively rather than positively? If Yes, then you've got to be thinking positively and never negatively. For, positive thinking gives rise to positive results/outcomes. But, the reverse is the case with negative thinking.

What lies before you matters more than whatever that lies behind you. In other words, whatever you think that you have lost in the past is nothing to be compared to what is obtainable for you in the future. Now that implies, you have to disregard your past life or past glory. And do regard only the fabulous future ahead of you. For, believe you me. What the future holds in stock for you is better off than whatever you think you have lost previously. -Emeasoba George

You have to be mindful of your thoughts, utterances and attitude. That is to say, do think positively, speak positively, change personally or rather act positively. For your thoughts and utterances can influence your disposition and outlook to life. In other words, they can affect your attitude or approach to life (your relationship with others) positivey or negatively and your prospect for the future as well. ~Emeasoba George