Quotes About Perspective, Outlook, and Viewpoint
Use these quotes to take a fresh look on life's challenges and propel yourself to new heights!
“You can complain that roses have thorns, or rejoice that thorns have roses.”
— Ziggy
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”
— Charlie Chaplin
“Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it’s more like a cha-cha.”
— Robert Brault
“You cannot change the past but you can always change your perspective.”
— Freequill
“Mind is a flexible mirror; adjust it to see a better world.”
— Amit Ray
“The optimist sees the donut; the pessimist sees the hole."
— Oscar Wilde
“You have to have the bad days to appreciate the good ones.”
— Unknown
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.”
— Unknown
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.”
— Thomas L. Holdcroft
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
— Helen Keller
“Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Children see magic because they look for it.”
— Christopher Moore
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Winston Churchill
“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.”
— Dan Brown
“An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.”
— Laurence J. Peter
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief.”
— Gerry Spence
“If you believe it will work out, you will see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”
— Al Neuharth
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”
— Ernest Holmes
“I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
— Martha Washington
“Every day above earth is a good day.“
— Ernest Hemingway
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
— John Wooden
“Pay attention to what you pay attention to.”
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal