Outlook On Life Quotes

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.

Mark Batterson

Outcomes, Determined, Outlook

Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.74, Multnomah

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

Patricia Highsmith

Mistake, People, Doe

Patricia Highsmith (2008). “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

James Gleick

Children, Play, Defining

James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

Phil Vischer

Writing, Life Is, Odd

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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.

Tom Petty

Couple, Years, News

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What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

Barry Gallagher

Destiny, Thinking, Action

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I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Aubrey Plaza

People, Mets, Given

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Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day? Don't watch CNN. Don't read the New York Times.

Rush Limbaugh

New York, Optimistic, Cnn

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

Greg Koukl

Philosophy, Reality, Stories

Source: www.biblegateway.com

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I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

Thierry Mugler

Fashion, Positive Outlook, Trendy

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If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

Chris Prentiss

Believe, Goal, People

Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.23, BookBaby

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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

Gary Wright

Life, People, India

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Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspiring, Determination, Discipline

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If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (…). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Air, Risk, World

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I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

Rob Brydon

Outlook

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

Abbey Lincoln

Men, People, Crowds

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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.

Mother Teresa

Spiritual, Heart, Giving

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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