Quotes about Perspective

You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions. This is an easy thing to say but much more difficult to do.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.

Is money good? Is money good? Many negative-minded persons say, "Money is the root of all evil." But the Bible says: Love of money is the root of all evil. And there is a big difference between the two even though one little word makes the difference.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false.

A negative mind spawns only negative ideas.

My mother used to tell me, "Things always look worse at night." For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.

Did people always have to wait for pestilence or war or tragedy to be shocked into forgetting about themselves?

Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

These young people need to see that there's something bigger out there than what they're looking at everyday or seeing in the news or on social media. They need men and women to come into their lives who will give them a bigger vision of the world, of life, of opportunity, of what they can become rather than what they think they are limited to you.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.