Top 200 Perspective Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Don’t ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!”

— Russell Simmons

102. “Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”

— Zig Ziglar

103. “Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

— Kālidāsa

104. “Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don’t compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they’re doing.”

— Angie Martinez

105. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

— Paulo Coelho

106. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

— James Allen

107. “Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.”

— Peace Pilgrim

108. “Happiness is an inside job.”

— William Arthur Ward

109. “Attitude is everything.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

110. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”

— Nido R. Qubein

111. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

— C. S. Lewis

112. “Life is what you make it.”

— Grandma Moses

113. “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

— Charlie Chaplin

114. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

— Harper Lee

115. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

— L.M. Montgomery

116. “Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Charles Dickens

117. “Everybody has a story. And there’s something to be learned from every experience.”

— Oprah Winfrey

118. “You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.”

— Kody Keplinger

119. “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

120. “Today is a brand new beginning for me!”

— Joyce Meyer

121. “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”

— Charlie Chaplin

122. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

— Dolly Parton

123. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

124. “Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

125. “We are what we think.”

— Buddha

126. “Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.”

— Denis Waitley

127. “You create your own reality.”

— Jane Roberts

128. “Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.”

— Mary Kay Ash

129. “It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.”

— Randy Pausch

130. “The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.”

— Louise Hay

131. “Today is the most important day of our lives.”

— Nhat Hanh

132. “Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.”

— Earl Nightingale

133. “Life happens not to me but for me.”

— Tony Robbins

134. “What you aim at determines what you see.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

135. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”

— Oprah Winfrey

136. “Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.”

— Doc Brown

137. “We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

138. “The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?”

— Oprah Winfrey

139. “If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.”

— T.D. Jakes

140. “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”

— Louis C.K.

141. “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”

— Bob Proctor

142. “With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. ”

— Oprah Winfrey

143. “There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”

— Pablo Picasso

144. “Be positive. Stay happy and don’t let the negativity of the world get you down.”

— Germany Kent

145. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

— Anthony Bourdain

146. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

147. “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”

— Epictetus

148. “There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

149. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”

— Faraaz Kazi

150. “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

— Viktor E. Frankl