Quotes About Perspective

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

People first, then money, then things.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

We become what we think about most.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.