Quotes about Optimism
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.
— DH Lawrence
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
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
— Dale Carnegie
Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.
— Dale Carnegie
Count your blessings—not your troubles!
— Dale Carnegie
I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
— Dale Carnegie
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
— Dale Carnegie
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …
— Dale Carnegie
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.
— Dale Carnegie
Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.
— Dale Carnegie
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
— Walt Whitman