Top 100 Great Things Happen Quotes
#1. Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson
#2. Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.
Luis Palau
#3. When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
Paul Budnitz
#4. Follow your dreams and beielve in your heart day after day. Then sit back and just watch great things happen in your life!
Taliah Pina
#5. Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths - their talent, skill, and experience.
John C. Maxwell
#7. If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
Alan Armstrong
#8. When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.
Annet Mahendru
#9. Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.
John Gardner
#10. Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be against them, but great things happen nonetheless.
Jamie Schoffman
#11. Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.
Nigel Lythgoe
#12. Don't ever give up on your dreams. When you finally stop chasing and grab hold, you can make great things happen. Let your determination take over, and you will be amazed at where it takes you. Your dreams are always within reach, as long as you believe.
Tessa Brookfield
#13. Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.
Alan Weisman
#14. I have a nice office. I have a nice house ... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
Bill Gates
#15. I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.
Luke Pritchard
#16. The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.
Bill Buckner
#17. Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.
June Millington
#18. Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. Too many of you are doing great stuff in small ponds, it's time for a stir-up, break limits, break boundaries, breakthrough. Go, make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#20. Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
Tunde Adebimpe
#21. I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.
Michael Chang
#22. Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
Mark Twain
#23. It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work
Robert Griffin III
#24. Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
Mary Oliver
#25. When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
Elisha Cuthbert
#26. Bad things happen to good people and Good things happen to bad people..that's just how life is. Yet ... A Great person is the one that will overcome it all!
Timothy Pina
#27. I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Clinton Sparks
#28. Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in ... you're up and down, all of a sudden, it just clicks. And I think that's what's happened to me since I got to Montreal. And I'm proud of the things we've been able to accomplish ... we've all made each other great.
Anthony Calvillo
#29. God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight! Courage doesn't happen without fear, doubt, and unbelief; courage overcomes all of these things to get the job done. How do we knock off fear or doubt out unbelief? Simple faith in God.
Tim Storey
#30. Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.
Jonathan Bennett
#31. You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.
Joyce Meyer
#32. I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
Randolph Scott
#33. Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.
Andrew Luck
#35. You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
Ben Carson
#36. My goal is to encourage people to see the possibilities that life holds. So many great things can happen in life, if we can find our own way of doing things, and believe in ourselves, no matter what challenges surround you.
Jim Abbott
#37. Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.
Debasish Mridha
#38. People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
John Lasseter
#39. Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot ... and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#40. Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember ... I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter ... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things - terrible, yes, but great.
J.K. Rowling
#41. I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
Jon Runyan
#42. [mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.
Ryan Gosling
#43. What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
Jens Voigt
#44. Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.
Tim Tebow
#45. They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
Jim Bakker
#46. I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
Joe Jamail
#48. Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
James L. Brooks
#49. You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.
Joel Osteen
#50. If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.
Kaka
#51. We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.
Jason Kilar
#53. I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine ... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.
Matthew Nable
#54. When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him.
Neill F. Marriott
#55. My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
Dave Brubeck
#56. If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire.
Hina Hashmi
#57. I think my dad is this great, wonderful ... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
Vanessa Kerry
#59. As a community, great things can happen when each individual contributes, according to their strengths, toward a common goal.
Idowu Koyenikan
#60. You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
Ray Manzarek
#61. I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our planet, and the potential for scariness on our planet. Being chased by anyone or anything can be scary. It is just a big, fun analogy.
Mireille Enos
#62. This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled.
Michael Storm
#63. It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.
Lev Grossman
#64. When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.
Thomas Jefferson
#65. Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.
Anthony Jeselnik
#66. Ed Catmull has thought a lot about the role luck plays at a great company, and how businesspeople manage that luck. It's all in the preparedness, he says, and in creating a culture that can adapt to the unexpected. "These things are always going to happen. What separates you is your response,
Brent Schlender
#67. Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.
Keith Carter
#68. I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.
Elizabeth Taylor
#69. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
#70. Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion
and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder ...
Diana Gabaldon
#71. Was slated for the afternoon shift with Nate, but hell if I was sticking to the schedule. I figured one of two things would happen the more time I spent with her. I'd learn she was annoying, a pain in the ass, or silly, and all of those would be great because I could get her out of my system.
Lauren Blakely
#72. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.
Christene Houston
#73. I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.
David Archuleta
#74. I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Hershiser
#75. To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.
Michael Sam
#76. I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.
Mike Nichols
#77. Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.
Sophie Blackall
#78. That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.
Joe
#79. For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#80. Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important ... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.
Bruce Kovner
#81. Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#82. He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#83. Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.
Tracy Thompson
#84. They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.
Shaquille O'Neal
#85. The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#86. I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!
Lakshmi Pratury
#87. To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If these things didn't happen, you wouldn't have such great people who walk with you, walk beside you, and walk into your life. Cherish the subtractions and you will be blessed with additions.
Robert J. Braathe
#88. Charlene puts a hand on Sunny's. "I'm sorry for the things you're about to hear. I know they pertain to your brother, and it's probably going to be disturbing. I have the name of a great therapist if you happen to need one later." "I'm
Helena Hunting
#89. If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.
Robbie Fowler
#90. Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#91. Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America ... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.
Hillary Clinton
#92. In any case,' I added, 'I don't know that the great-niece is excluded under the Act - I only understand that she may be. In any case, there are still six months before the Act comes into force, and many things may happen before then.' " 'You mean that Auntie may die,' she said, 'but she's
Dorothy L. Sayers
#93. You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
J. Michael Straczynski
#94. The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
Neal A. Maxwell
#95. Whatever it was, Calla's imagination had waked up from a long sleep, and these days she had the feeling that magic and miracles might be hovering in the air all around, waiting to happen. She wasn't a great believer in such things, but she didn't push the thought away.
Jenny Wingfield
#96. The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#97. She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#99. I've often said that great things can happen to you and for you, but if it doesn't happen in you, then the way you view yourself won't change.
Maria Durso
#100. If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.
Kip Thorne
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