Perspective Quotes

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd wastemy life and be a poet. They were right.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your OwnShadow Doesn't Follow You.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.