Perry, John

Philosopher American Born 1943 (age 83)

Analyzed indexicals, demonstratives, and perspectival thought.

386 quotes

"The only true failure is the failure to try."
Courage
"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."
Success
"Your attitude determines your altitude."
Motivation
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Power
"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."
Inspiration
"Every expert was once a beginner."
Education
"The greatest wealth is health."
Health
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Adventure
"There is no try, only do or do not."
"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."
Strength
"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."
Creativity
"The most important journey is the one within."
Solitude
"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."
Happiness
"The seed of great discovery is curiosity."
Knowledge
"Your present circumstances don't determine your destiny, your decisions do."
Power
"Courage is not the absence of fear, it's action in the face of fear."
Courage
"The only predictable thing about life is its unpredictability."
Change
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
Courage
"Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
Change
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can change the outcome of their lives by merely changing their attitudes."
Inspiration
"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop."
Strength
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Wisdom
"The freedom you're talking about is freedom from something. I'm talking about freedom to do something."
Freedom
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Happiness
"Your task is not to see through the eyes of others, but to see through your own eyes."
"The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."
Freedom
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."
Perseverance
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Strength
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Perseverance