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Quotes About Perspective

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
~ Alan Loy McGinnis
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.
~ John Addison
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
~ Katherine Paterson
Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
~ Walter Payton
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
~ Albert Ellis
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
~ Rene Descartes
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
~ Samuel Johnson
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
~ Ansel Adams
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
~ Steve Allen
The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
~ Barbara Fredrickson
As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem
~ Stephen Covey
Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.
~ Émile Coué
You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.
~ Edward Keating
There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .
~ Angelo Dundee
If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
~ William James
But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.
~ Anne Hathaway