Top 100 Make Things Happen Quotes
#1. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#2. To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.
Issey Miyake
#3. I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
Chris Gethard
#4. I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
Heidi Klum
#5. It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.
Kirsty Logan
#6. Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.
Robin LaFevers
#7. if you wanted special things to happen in your life, then you had to damn well get up of your own backside and make them happen yourself.
Neil Hunter
#8. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
#9. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
#10. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.
Marian Keyes
#11. We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
Robin Sharma
#12. We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".
Scott Fotheringham
#13. There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.
Sue Wicks
#14. I just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people.
Mike Bibby
#15. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.
Kurt Wagner
#16. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...
Rohinton Mistry
#17. Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you?
No.
Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
S.E. Hinton
#18. People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
Guillermo Del Toro
#19. I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.
Glenda Millard
#20. She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.
Lev Grossman
#21. My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.
Kim Sheridan
#22. Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
Colleen Houck
#23. Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen
Yehuda Berg
#24. I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents ... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
#25. For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
Mira Nair
#27. Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.
Lois Gould
#28. You and I are going to happen, that's all I'm sayin'. You say the word, I will make your body feel things that your pretty boy at home has never even come close to making you feel." Holding On (Lights of Peril)
A.C. Bextor
#29. It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.
Cheryl Richardson
#30. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!
Norman Whaler
#31. I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.
Ellen Page
#32. But you need to make sure that the last thing you remember about today isn't that you fell down, it's that you got back up again. That's what we do when bad things happen to us.
Michael Rowe
#33. I squeeze my eyes shut as though that will somehow make it go away, but I know it won't. It happened and there's no changing it. No changing any of the things that happen to us. All there is to do is move on. Starting now.
Nyrae Dawn
#34. Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#35. Don't just stand there; make something happen.
Lee Iacocca
#36. There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
Herman Cain
#37. Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how I do things.
Rob Machado
#38. A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
Ian Somerhalder
#39. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama
#40. What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Robertson Davies
#41. Somewhere, incredible things are happening. The trick is, not to go out and find where those things are happening, but to go out and make them happen.
Chloe Thurlow
#42. To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Tom Robbins
#43. Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
Laini Taylor
#44. Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
Dick Vitale
#45. Fortunately he had nothing resembling a plan, so he didn't have to worry about things not working out according to it. He simply let them happen, unable to make up his mind whether he was losing his judgement or finally developing some perspective.
L.J. Davis
#46. I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.
Dennis Lehane
#47. Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.
Sophia Amoruso
#48. Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#49. Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment - the most priceless of human treasures - are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen - who make "good" things happen - in the world around them. Joe Klock
Deena B. Chopra
#50. We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything
Nicola Yoon
#51. Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.
Michael P. Naughton
#52. Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
Steve Maraboli
#53. I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.
Edgar Guest
#54. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
Horace Mann
#55. There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
Reese Witherspoon
#56. The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.
John C. Bogle
#57. Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings.
Dan Buettner
#58. I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
Kevin Hart
#59. A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
Tom Freston
#60. I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
Alexander Walker
#61. Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
Aaron Swartz
#62. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. I
Colleen Hoover
#63. I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.
Tammara Webber
#64. Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.
Stephen Moyer
#65. Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
Roy Bennett
#66. 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
#67. I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
Antony Sher
#68. Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.
Curtis Jackson
#69. Whatever happens this season happens for a reason. But one thing we are sure of is that all things work for us, not against us! Let it come whatever may; by the grace of God, we gonna be victorious!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. Sometimes I talk, I say things, and I'm like, 'Maybe this won't happen, but I'm going to make myself believe it.'
Brandon Jacobs
#71. Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.
Kevin Brooks
#72. 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
#73. Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!
Caroline Myss
#74. If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.
Barack Obama
#75. There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.
Shepard Fairey
#76. September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.
Anne Bishop
#78. It's a process, it doesn't happen overnight, when you depersonalize another person and view them as just an object. An object for pleasure and not a living breathing human being. It seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn't do.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#79. We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.
Kym Whitley
#80. You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
Anita Roddick
#81. There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.
Malcolm Turnbull
#83. And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
Bob Schieffer
#84. god lets bad things happen to good people to test their faith, but the goddess knows the faithful and knows that bad things only make people stronger. and there's nothing wrong with stronger.
Jennifer Dimarco
#85. When you're excited, Brooks explained, "it primes an opportunity mindset, so you think of all of the good things that can happen. You're more likely to make decisions and take actions that will make [good results] likely to occur."16
Amy Cuddy
#86. Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.
Brian Klemmer
#87. I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.
Angie Martinez
#88. In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.
Michael Vick
#89. I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.
Joe Bradley
#90. Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
Fred Rogers
#91. Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.
Jason Fried
#92. But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark
that sort of make everything else seem
unimportant.
Tennessee Williams
#93. Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
Emeril Lagasse
#94. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?
Ann Landers
#95. For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.
Kelly Rowland
#96. I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Corazon Aquino
#97. We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
Alan Cohen
#98. I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
Diane Paulus
#99. You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.
Buck Brannaman
#100. Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.
Mansi Soni
