Quotes About Perspective Change

"Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end."

— Saint Ignatius

"Your living is determined not so much by what life bring to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

— John Homer Miller

"You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better."

— Austin Seferian-Jenkins

"If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfilment in every circumstance."

— Ralph Marston

"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life."

— Emmet Fox

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."

— Emmet Fox

"Things are in their essence, what we choose to make them. A thing according to the mode in which one looks at it"

— Oscar Wilde

"What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"I make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

— Alexander Hamilton

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

— Voltaire

"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others."

— Don Shula, Head Coach, Baltimore Colts

"Everyone who has achieved exceptional performance has encountered terrible difficulties along the way. There are no exceptions. If you believe that doing the right kind of work can overcome the problems, then you have at least a chance of moving on to ever better performance. But those who see the setbacks as evidence that they lack the necessary gift will give up'quite logically, in light of their beliefs. They will never achieve what they might have."

— Geoff Colvin

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

— William Shakespeare

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of haven."

— John Milton

"You must not under any pretence allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind."

— Emmet Fox

"While life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

— Henry Ford

"No matter what happens, refuse to take it tragically'. to refuse to be tragic is to affirm victory. Know that you can be victorious and insist upon victory. Realize: God in me is stronger than anything l have to meet."

— Emmet Fox

"A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever."

— John Roos

"Analysing past mistakes and setbacks may improve your future performance."

— Meg Selig

"I believe the most important decision we make on a day-to-day basis is our choice of an attitude! It either keeps us moving ahead or cripples our progress it fuels our fire or assaults our hope. When or attitude is right, there's no barrier too high no valley too deep, no dream too extreme and no challenge too great."

— Bob & Debby Gass, UCB

"Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity."

— Reed Markham

"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

— Anonymous

"You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life."

— Napoleon Hill

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

"This world is a school, that and nothing more, and provided you learn your lesson, nothing else matters. It does not really matter whether you are rich or poor, cultured or simple, a king or a scavenger. These are only the roles that men enact on the stage of life."

— Emmet Fox

"The key is to be systematically learning from failures. To be closely monitoring what is working and what is going wrong and making good use of that information."

— Peter Sims