Quotes About Perspective

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.