Quotes About Perspective

The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life.

We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.

Any married man should forget his mistakes—there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

experience alone does not add value to a life. It's not necessarily experience that is valuable; it's the insight people gain because of their experience. Reflective

What's the key to relating to others? It's putting yourself in someone else's place instead of putting them in their place.

A person with a negative self-image will expect the worst, damage relationships, and find others who are similarly negative.

Positive thinking does not always change our circumstances, but it will always change us. When we are able to think right about tough situations, then our journeys through life become

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking." —DAVID SCHWARTZ

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself.

Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush.

People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

The Norwegians have a saying that I think captures their attitude: There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.3

If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.

God prepares leaders in a crockpot, not a microwave. More important than the awaited goal is the work God does in us while we wait. Waiting deepens and matures us, levels our perspective, and broadens our understanding. Tests of time determine whether we can endure seasons of seemingly unfruitful preparation, and indicate whether we can recognize and seize the opportunities that come our way.

A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision.

If we despise the position we have, it may be because of what I call "destination disease," which can also be called the greener grass syndrome. If we focus on being some other place because we think it's better, then we will neither enjoy where we are nor do what we must to succeed. 3.

look at the wisdom (and humor) found in this Chinese proverb: If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help others.

Successful people think differently than unsuccessful people.

When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.

Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in light of our intentions, which are invisible to others," said philosopher J. G. Bennett, "while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day." And

Hundreds can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.