“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.” — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk,… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day?… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The outlook on practice is we really have to prepare harder. We really have to focus harder on everything - we can't… — Darrion Scott Copy Share Image
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life. — Meera Lester Copy Share Image
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Since I've been in an actor, I've lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm - I had the fortune of working in… — Matthew Settle Copy Share Image
The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
I was attracted to the positive outlook on women especially exploring relationships with different people and being confident and comfortable and strong.… — Dakota Johnson Copy Share Image
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat,… — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking -… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person… — Andrea Michaels Copy Share Image
I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
