Top 200 Perspective Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

— Henry Miller

152. “Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”

— Maya Angelou

153. “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”

— Isaac Asimov

154. “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

— W. Clement Stone

155. “Don’t look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.”

— Joel Brown

156. “Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.”

— Joel Osteen

157. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas

158. “It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.”

— Louise Hay

159. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

160. “While there’s life, there’s hope.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

161. “If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

— Tony Gaskins

162. “Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.”

— Zig Ziglar

163. “Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses...”

— Marcus Aurelius

164. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

165. “No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

166. “There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.”

— Robert Evans

167. “Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

168. “Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?”

— Dale Carnegie

169. “Don’t make excuses, don’t blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!”

— Joel Osteen

170. “Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.”

— Leon Brown

171. “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

172. “There is no truth. There is only perception.”

— Gustave Flaubert

173. “Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.”

— Stephen R. Covey

174. “The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.”

— Tony Robbins

175. “Don’t wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.”

— Steve Rizzo

176. “The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY.”

— Robin S. Sharma

177. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind – adjust your sails.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

178. “If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, it is almost a cinch that you won’t.”

— Walter D. Wintle

179. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

— Robert Fulghum

180. “We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”

— Steve Maraboli

181. “Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won’t always be there.”

— Joel Osteen

182. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

— Jim Rohn

183. “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

184. “Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!”

— Sathya Sai Baba

185. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Breault

186. “My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.”

— Tony Robbins

187. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— C. S. Lewis

188. “I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.”

— Bob Marley

189. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

— John Lubbock

190. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

191. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

— Bob Moawad

192. “You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”

— Tony Dungy

193. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

— Stephen R. Covey

194. “Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”

— Epictetus

195. “Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”

— Steve Maraboli

196. “Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

197. “A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”

— James Allen

198. “Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

— Epictetus

199. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

200. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau