Your outlook on life is a conscious choice.
Susan Murray Young Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: attitude optimism pessimism

It's very much easier to be tragic than it is to be comic. I have known people who embrace the tragic view of life, and it is a cop-out. They simply feel rotten about everything, and that is terribly easy.
Robertson Davies, novelist Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Categories: attitude pessimism optimism joy

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
James Allen As a Man Thinketh
Categories: thought optimism pessimism happiness

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Harvey Mackay Syndicated column (United Features Syndicate)
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For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction. It's a disease, like alcoholism, compulsive overeating, or drug abuse.

``A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three--the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude negativity pessimism wellness addiction

What you see (in your mind's eye) is what you get. Proof: What you saw is pretty much what you got!
Joe Klock Private correspondence with Karen Weber
Categories: joy attitude expectations visualization optimism pessimism

Procrastination results in apathy, discouragement, and depression, whenever we turn our backs on what we know we need to do, we turn against our higher self. We forego the power to do something positive, to turn the situation around, or open new doors. At times we all want to think about problems tomorrow, but we lose sleep unnecessarily because we forfeit facing the truth. Our inability to confront the heart of the matter causes anxiety.
Alexandra Stoddard Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: procrastination put off action worry fear pessimism

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
P.D. Ouspensky You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: pessimism negativity depression sadness self-defeatism

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude choice thoughts optimism pessimism

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life...If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world.
Robertson Davies, novelist Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Categories: pessimism optimism life living attitude future

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you want to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of the mind.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
Walter D. Wintle Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude optimism succes optimistic pessimism pessimistic failure

... because your thoughts -- whether positive or negative -- have a profound effect on what you do, there are times when it is vital to make yourself consciously aware of precisely what you are thinking... Learning how to challenge a conclusion to which your brain has leaped will help you to recognize when that conclusion is unjustified by facts... The time to challenge your thoughts is when you feel yourself getting upset...
Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid : Simple and Sure Techniques for Gaining Greater Control of Your Life
Categories: thoughts emotions feelings optimism pessimism self-fulfilling prophecy

Many of us unconciously create drama in our minds, expecting the worst from a situation only to have our expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Inadvertantly we become authors of our own misfortune. And so we struggle from day to day, from crisis to crisis, bruised and battered by circumstances without realizing that we always have a choice...
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings?...Suspend your disbelief. Take a leap of faith. After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
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So don't think you can't think you can.
Charles Inge The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: thought negativity optimism pessimism self-confidence positive thinking

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: optimism pessimism self-confidence belief expectations success failure

From a medical point of view, negative thinking supresses the immune system, raises the blood pressure, and creates a general level of stress and fatigue in the body. In short, infections, cardiovascular irregularities, the degeneration of muscles, and the random growth of unwanted cells get more opportunity.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: negativity negativism pessimist pessimism wellness illness health

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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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.
Clement Stone Words for All Occasions
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Sharp acids corrode their own containers.
Albanian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness then we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Julia Seton Treasury of Women's Quotations
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You would be surprised how many people quit when faced with obstacles. As every good salesman knows, everything may not be possible today, but sooner or later, it is possible.
Earl Graves To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
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The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.
L.P. Jacks Words for All Occasions
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Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.
Martin Seligman What You Can Change... and What You Can't
Categories: pessimism wellness sadness depression failure success achievement health attitude emotions feelings negative thinking optimism

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
General Douglas MacArthur Words for All Occasions
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The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
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