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Quotes About Optimism

You have to believe that you're entitled to happiness.
~ Cristina Henriquez
But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.
~ Crockett Johnson
If you're our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism, right? The triumph of hope over experience?
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.
~ D. H. Lawrence
John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
~ D.H. Lawrence
You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
~ D.H. Lawrence
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.
~ D.H. Lawrence
He rather hated hope. `Une immense espérance a traversé la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:`---and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.
~ D.H. Lawrence
A man has to fend and fettle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself. You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best of you and in the power beyond it.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Une immense esprance a travers la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:'--and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
~ Dale Carnegie
When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
~ Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
~ Dale Carnegie
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?
~ Dale Carnegie
You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing
~ Dale Carnegie
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
~ Dale Carnegie
1. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
~ Dale Carnegie
Every day is a new life to a wise man.
~ Dale Carnegie
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
~ Dale Carnegie