Charles Swindoll Quotes – Insights from a Wise Mind
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Attitude is everything. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
We cannot change our past, but we can change our attitude towards it.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it, and so it is with you.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If life was fair, we would all have the same number of problems. But it’s not, so we don’t.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life.
The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our attitudes.
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what happens.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
In life, we are often faced with difficult decisions. But it’s how we handle those decisions that define who we are.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Life is too short to waste time on things that don’t matter. Focus on what truly brings you joy and fulfillment.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.
The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.
I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow their own dreams.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.
Don’t let the opinions of others determine your worth.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude towards it.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as difficult situations.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The meaningful life is not about being rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect. It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
Don’t let the fear of failure stop you from reaching your goals.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.