Quotes About Perspective

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything.....other than what you allow!

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!