Quotes about Perspective

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

Have you ever had to communicate someone else's vision? It's very difficult to do, isn't it?

The bottom line is that when you long for the gifts, favor, position, or opportunities of someone else, it distracts you from the gifts, favor, position, and opportunities that God has given YOU.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Limit the effect of any emotional high or low to the twenty-four-hour period that follows the occurrence.

I have found this to be true. Someone once asked me why he should adopt an abundance mentality, and he was surprised by my answer. I told him that if you believe in abundance, that's what life gives you. If you believe in scarcity, then that's what you get.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

Choose to be responsible for how you view your circumstances.

It's about attitude.

Vision is the light that keeps you headed down the right path when all the world around you is dark.

The happiest people in life don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just try to make the best of everything. They're like the person in a remote village going to a well every day to get water who says, "Every time I come to this well, I come away with my bucket full!" instead of, "I can't believe I have to keep coming back to this well to fill up my bucket!