Quotes About Perspective

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

Every little pebble in the stream believes itself to be a precious stone.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego, provided one refrains from going into too much detail.

The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.

Being realistic doesn't require being self-deprecating, being serious all the time, or seeing things in a negative light.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little wealth is sufficient.

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

Whatever you dont like and accept about the perfection of your life right now will keep coming. What you believe is missing will stay missing. Be grateful for however it looks and more will come to gratify you.

You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.

If you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.