Perspective Quotes

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."

Sophocles

"Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears."

Kate Winslet

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."

Marcelene Cox

“We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.”

“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

“At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.”

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Winning isn't always championships.”

“I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, "It's tomorrow." It's always today.”

“Sometimes it's better to come through from, say, last to eighth than staying eighth, and you've qualified eighth!”

“Sometimes I watch a football match, and I think I know better, but at the end of the day, we don't. So I think people need to appreciate more what we are trying to achieve in the car.”

“Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.”

“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”

“My father wasn't around when I was a kid. As I got older I looked deeper and thought, "I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?"

“Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.”

“Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”

“Some see the glass half-empty, some see the glass half-full. I see the glass as too big.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”