Top 200 Perspective Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.”

— Stephen R. Covey

52. “Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.”

— Catherine DeVrye

53. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

54. “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”

— Joe Rogan

55. “Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

56. “Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.”

— Pope John Paul II

57. “There are no ordinary moments.”

— Dan Millman

58. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

— Rumi

59. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

— Khalil Gibran

60. “If there is no solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

61. “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you.”

— Miguel Ruiz

62. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

63. “Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.”

— Dan Brown

64. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda

65. “Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

— Og Mandino

66. “Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control...”

— Tim Tebow

67. “Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

68. “You can’t climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”

— Zig Ziglar

69. “Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

70. “Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”

— Matthew McConaughey

71. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

— John Hughes

72. “The way we see the problem is the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

73. “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”

— Irving Berlin

74. “Impossible is just an opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

75. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

76. “I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

— Paulo Coelho

77. “It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.”

— Epictetus

78. “When you think positive, good things happen.”

— Matt Kemp

79. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

— Steve Maraboli

80. “Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

81. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”

— Anne Sweeney

82. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

— Ray Bradbury

83. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.”

— Ram Dass

84. “That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”

— Jocko Willink

85. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

— Maya Angelou

86. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

— Lou Holtz

87. “Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”

— Marcus Aurelius

88. “It’s just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

89. “Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”

— George R.R. Martin

90. “I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I’ve ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn’t get any better than that.”

— Warren Buffett

91. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

— Henry David Thoreau

92. “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

93. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

94. “Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.”

— Mandy Hale

95. “If you think you can do it, you can.”

— John Burroughs

96. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

97. “We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.”

— Stephen R. Covey

98. “There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

99. “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

— Epictetus

100. “The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.”

— Jim Rohn