Top 100 Dwell On Quotes
#1. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given.
Linda Dillow
#2. Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#3. I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
Jonathan Ive
#4. Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.
Monte Irvin
#5. Never give anybody permission to disturb your peace.
Always ignore negative comment.
Dwell on positive thoughts and occupied your mind with songs of praise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. Do you dwell on everyone's junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can't stop thinking about what's in everyone's pants?
Brie Spangler
#7. Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.
Wade Schalles
#8. You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.
Kalup Linzy
#9. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)
Steven Levy
#10. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
#11. does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now,
J.K. Rowling
#12. A disposition to dwell on the bright side ... is like gold to its possessor ...
Lydia Sigourney
#13. I had a long list of things that were best not to dwell on. Losing control, failing Dawn, eyeing up Mammon for violent and bloody demon sex, breaking Akil's nose, and how I wanted to rip Adam's spine from his flesh and beat him with it.
Pippa DaCosta
#14. Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.
Emily Yoffe
#15. I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.
Noel Clarke
#16. Don't dwell on sadness. Joy will take you where you want to go.
Bryant McGill
#18. As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.
Robert Jordan
#19. Raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine
Karen Marie Moning
#20. It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#21. If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
Benjamin Carson
#22. We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
Victoria Osteen
#24. No. You cannot save everyone. Live with it. Correct what you can, but do not dwell on it.
Eric R. Asher
#25. To find them all in one package ... well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
Josh Lanyon
#26. We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.
Theresa May
#27. Don't let life slap you with a cold shock; consider all the negative outcomes so you can live a more positive life. You'll make wiser choices and not dwell on all the perils that can befall you." I
Dannika Dark
#28. There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.
Jack Nicklaus
#29. I'm limitless, spontaneous and fearless. I can take direction and also give it. And I don't dwell on celebrity.
Ester Dean
#30. Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.
Siddhattha Gotama
#31. Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.
Alexander McCall Smith
#32. I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
Evan Osnos
#33. If the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future,
Alan Lightman
#34. To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.
Tony Robbins
#35. Is there anything you can't do?"
"Plenty, Mrs. Proffitt. I just don't dwell on them.
Shelley Gray
#37. For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#38. A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
E.L. Doctorow
#39. There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
Zendaya
#40. The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
Ernest Holmes
#41. I don't like to dwell on regrets. They tell you that you have not come to terms with what you've done.
Joel Dicker
#42. I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body, silent but sustaining.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.
James Patterson
#44. I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4x100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.
Usain Bolt
#45. I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
Stephen Sondheim
#47. Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver
#48. Well, it's more like a sentence on life," he said, grinning. "I live by three rules: Don't dwell on the past, present, or future, party hard, and never fall in love. Easy.
Ada Adams
#49. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.
Roselyn Sanchez
#50. There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
Ann Brashares
#51. Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
Yasmine Galenorn
#52. Always think positively, don't smoke, don't drink, don't dwell on bad thoughts, don't waste time brooding, and go for a walk every day!
Karsten Thormaehlen
#53. Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.
Greg Proops
#54. If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.
Woodrow M. Kroll
#55. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling
#56. It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.
Sophie Kinsella
#57. Dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side
Karinush2828
#59. In a way, it's easier to dwell on sin and guilt than it is to dwell on love and forgiveness - especially
Sierra Simone
#60. I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
Kami Garcia
#61. As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we move back and forth on that line decade by decade, year by year, week by week, even hour by hour.
Ada Calhoun
#62. When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.
Anais Nin
#63. For I wish rather, in this lecture at least, to dwell on the effect that decorative art has on human life - on its social not its purely artistic effect.
Oscar Wilde
#64. As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#65. I don't have to tell you how pointless it is to dwell on the past, sweet pea.
Molly McLain
#66. Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.
Cathy Moriarty
#67. Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.
Craig Lancaster
#68. Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.
D.A. Botta
#69. Friends have disagreements sometimes but they don't dwell on the disagreement, they always find a way to dismantle the tension and move on.
Euginia Herlihy
#70. Don't dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you
S.E. Sever
#71. Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Allegra Huston
#72. Be careful of what you allow your mind to dwell on. And the words that come out of your mouth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
John Eliot
#74. So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
Judith Jamison
#75. Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things.
Anonymous
#76. I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.
Charlie Munger
#77. Apollo knew well and good that wishes were nothing more than dust held together with hope, impossible to hold and foolish to dwell on.
Annabeth Albert
#79. When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.
Henry Hazlitt
#80. When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
Jim Bishop
#81. I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.
Hume Cronyn
#82. They say death will come if you dwell on life, but risk death, and you may yet live
Tamura Yumi
#83. I was content to dwell on the new idea that had come to me that all things and states were just varieties of light, and that in every form, light was the emanation and manifestation of God.
Judith Merkle Riley
#84. It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#85. At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge.
James W. Loewen
#86. Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.
Devin Hester
#87. We shouldn't dwell on what is 'perfect.' We should celebrate our uniqueness.
Eva Mendes
#88. Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more.
Diana Gabaldon
#89. The danger all goalkeepers face is thinking too much, that the nature of their position gives them time to dwell on doubts.
Jonathan Wilson
#90. My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.
Brett Ratner
#91. People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.
Aya Kito
#92. We all have things that we regret, thinks we wish we could change, but we can't dwell on them.
Julie Kagawa
#93. A person you loved has used you and hurt you, but there are more people to love, new paths to pursue, and noble tasks that only you can accomplish-for you and for your entire kingdom. If you must dwell on something dwell on that.
Kelli Swofford Nielsen
#95. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius
#96. The more we dwell on what we don't want, the more we get it.
Louise Hay
#97. Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Brian Tracy
#98. We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
Colin Powell
#99. I've discovered that if you want to reach your
true potential, it's much more effective to ignite a new passion for
life than to dwell on past problems.
Neil A. Fiore
#100. My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.
Joan Benoit
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