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Quotes About Optimism

The fact is we each get multiple chances over and over again in life. Keep this in mind, and you will find your life less pressured.
~ Hendrie Weisinger
If at first you don't succeed . . . so much for skydiving.
~ Henny Youngman
An aeroplane booms overhead. We follow its evolutions with our faces skyward, our necks twisted, our eyes watering at the piercing brightness of the sky. Lamuse declares to me, when we have brought our gaze back to earth, "Those machines 'll never become practical, never." "How can you say that? Look at the progress they've made already, and the speed of it." "Yes, but they'll stop there. They'll never do any better, never.
~ Henri Barbusse
What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these becomes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal.
~ Henri Bergson
En la vida como en la fotografía, hay que pasar los negativos a positivos
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
It expresses an inveterate hopefulness and openness toward the future that has often been hard to sustain in the three decades since its publication but which characterizes Lefebvre's philosophically induced intellectual and political optimism.
~ Henri Lefebvre
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~ Henri Matisse
Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.
~ Henri Matisse
Il y a toujours des fleurs pour ceux qui veulent les voir.
~ Henri Matisse
Jag föddes på en söndag och söndagsbarn är glada och lättsamma och det går bra för dem i livet.
~ Henrik Tikkanen
Klag ikke under stjernene over mangel på lyspunkter i ditt liv
~ Henrik Wergeland
I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot, If that wherein my hopes delight, be best or not
~ Henry Alford
President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.
~ Henry Bonilla
The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.
~ Henry Cisneros
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. This is the great unworldliness. Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action. What a delightful state of mind to live in! What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with it for a day!
~ Henry Drummond
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~ Henry Ford
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
~ Henry Ford
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!
~ Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
~ Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
~ Henry Ford
There are two kinds of people: Those who think they can, and those who think they can't, and they're both right.
~ Henry Ford