Quotes about Perspective
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
— Will Rogers
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
— Andy Stanley
Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.
— Rick Warren
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
— Shane Claiborne
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
— Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
— Oscar Wilde
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.
— Joseph Wirthlin
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
— Ayn Rand
Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer