Quotes about Perspective
As the saying of the wise says, 'All this world promotes is vanity.' (But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity. — Eccles. 11:8)
— John Bunyan
If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!
— John Maxwell
You don't really understand people until you hear their life story. If you know their stories, you grasp their history, their hurts, their hopes and aspirations. You put yourself in their shoes. And just by virtue of listening and remembering what's important to them, you communicate that you care and desire to add value.
— John Maxwell
One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.
— John Maxwell
Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.
— John Maxwell
The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.
— John Maxwell
You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
— John Maxwell
See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.
— John Maxwell
people with a positive attitude focus their time and attention on solutions, not problems.
— John Maxwell
The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life.
— John Maxwell
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.
— John Maxwell
Any married man should forget his mistakes—there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
— John Maxwell