Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

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

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

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.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.

Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.