Quotes about Perspective
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
— Albert Einstein
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
— Albert Schweitzer
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
— Albert Bandura
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.
— Tony Robbins
As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
— John Newton
Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.
— Andy Stanley
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
— Jon Gordon
Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
— Arianna Huffington
Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.
— Alice Hoffman