Quotes about Perspective
Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.
— Joel Osteen
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
— Karl Barth
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
— Max Lucado
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
— Denzel Washington
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
— John of the Cross
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
— Oswald Chambers
You become what you think about most of the time.
— Brian Tracy
You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.
— Joyce Meyer
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
— Carl Jung
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
— Marcus Aurelius