Quotes about Perspective
Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.
— Henry Ford
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
— Henry Ford
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
— Leonard Hodgson