Alex Haley Quotes

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

Positivity helps produce better results.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy

My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side.

Negativity and Hulkamania - 2 things that don't go together.

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.