Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay United Features Syndicate column, printed 3/22/98 in the Arizona Republic.
Categories: action creativity opportunity work ideas

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Harvey Mackay Syndicated column (United Features Syndicate)
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude choice

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: life appreciation gratitude compliment relationships friendship love

Don't water your weeds.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: growth priorities change bad habits self-improvement

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: failure success vision mission planning priorities

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: perseverance determination responsibility success

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: success attitude decision vision mission goals

You're as old as you behave.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: age attitude

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: habits choices

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: work effort determination success failure vision action

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: listening understanding relationships

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: dreams vision mission goals planning success

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: attitude relationships trust confidence

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: mistakes failure success perseverance

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: risk safety vision goals dreams courage

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: time priorities planning

Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: friendship relationships

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey Mackay The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meaning life success love dreams

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over ``and over again will.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's column, "Fear of making mistakes is biggest mistake" in the 8/2/98 Arizona Republic.
Categories: mistakes errors failure self-defeating patterns forgiveness forgiving

Make the second effort your second nature.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's 10/4/1998 column in the Arizona``Republic,
Categories: determination try persevere effort worth never give up never say die excellence leadership

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often
Harvey Mackay 'Achievers focus on road rather
Categories: overcoming adversity problems challenges growth

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: positive attitude thinking optimism

...positive attitudes...come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free!
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: positive thinking attitude optimism

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: inner strength courage resources responsibility

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
Harvey Mackay "For many, creative spurt in life comes after age 60" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic Feb. 9, 2000
Categories: learning growth self-improvement creativity

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Harvey Mackay "Confusion inevitable with any change" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, 8/30/2000
Categories: change growth self-improvement success fulfillment

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Harvey Mackay "Encouragement more forceful then criticism" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, 12/6/2000
Categories: encouragement leadership productivity inspiration

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Harvey Mackay "Winners set goals, while losers get distracted" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, January 3, 2001
Categories: goals planning vision dreams purpose fulfillment

Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Harvey Mackay "Out of pressure, positive results can evolve" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, 10/24/2001
Categories: problem solving perspective challenges adversity