Harvey Mackay Quotes

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

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.

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one

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

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Attitude is everything.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

I have a really positive mindset about everything.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.