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Quotes About Outlook

I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed? He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?
~ Frank McCourt
Cock your hats, angles are attitudes
~ Frank Sinatra
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
~ Frederick Langbridge
The real difference between rich and poor is mindset.
~ Branden Condy
How you feel about your future determines how you perform today.
~ Brandon A. Trean
There is nothing either good or bad, it is merely your thinking that makes it so.
~ Brandon Garic Notch
Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?
~ Brandon Mull
Logically," Shallan said, "the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Was he happy? He wasn't sad. For now, he'd accept "not sad.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. "What does it matter? It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up here—you should just sit back and enjoy it." An ominous crash came from the clouds above them, and Raoden felt a wet drop splat against his head. "Fantastic," Galladon grumbled. "I'm enjoying myself already.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Logically the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark
~ Brandon Sanderson
Logically," Shallan said, "the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There's always another perspective, if you look hard enough.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The past is irrelevant. I only look forward." Dalinar was not certain he agreed with either statement.
~ Brandon Sanderson
perspective is a function of experience.
~ Brene Brown
Men and women whose outlook on life is conditioned by the Dow are shrewder on the street than are the disciples on their spiritual journey.
~ Brennan Manning
Never worry about what may happen tomorrow, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it won't. And don't take things too seriously, for very few things are worth it.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The fault-finder will find fault even in paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One's theories, after all, matter little, it is one's humor that is the great thing.
~ Henry James
At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open-handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for. Poor Ralph had been for many weeks steeped in melancholy; his outlook, habitually somber, lay under the shadow of a deeper cloud.
~ Henry James
Everything hinges on how you look at things
~ Henry Miller
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
~ Duncan Sheik
The past is yesterday. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
~ Gerry Cooney