Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.

For a long time I was kind of a glass-half-empty type of person.

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.