Quotes About Good Things

#1. Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Iain Banks

#2. God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

Joyce Meyer

#3. I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

Joyce Meyer

#4. What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?

Andy Stanley

#5. When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

Joe Frazier

#6. All good things comes to those who wait.

Violet Fane

#7. You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Claude M. Bristol

#8. I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

Madonna Ciccone

#9. 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

#10. When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

James Sinegal

#11. You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Good things come your way when you serve the people around you

Sunday Adelaja

#13. I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who's an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.

Ansel Elgort

#14. One of God's high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.

Elizabeth George

#15. I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't

William Shakespeare

#17. Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

Andy Partridge

#18. Good habits are enormously freeing - we accomplish good things almost on autopilot. One study from Duke University found that more than 40 percent of the actions people take every day aren't decisions, but habits. Good habits free us, but when sin becomes a habit, our souls lose their freedom.

John Ortberg

#19. He's gone now. He did something terrible, but ... he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

Anne Ursu

#20. Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

Daya

#21. Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?

Alan E. Nelson

#22. Do Christians in fact eagerly long for Christ's return? The more Christians are caught up in enjoying the good things of this life, and the more they neglect genuine Christian fellowship and their personal relationship with Christ, the less they will long for his return.

Wayne A. Grudem

#23. Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.

Katherine Center

#24. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Noam Chomsky

#25. I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.

Crystal Woods

#26. Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999

Daniel C. Dennett

#27. There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Sharon Stone

#28. The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

Wilbert Rideau

#29. No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Martha Beck

#30. If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.

Arthur Ashe

#31. The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

Terry Pratchett

#32. Many people, not just women, crave what their heart is missing, but they search in places they can never find it. They delight for a time in the many good things the Almighty has created, but only by seeking Jesus can they satisfy the deep longings of their hearts.

Sydney Tooman Betts

#33. If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

John Calvin

#34. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

Roger Ebert

#35. I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Mark Hoppus

#36. Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count themselves lucky! It's full enough of good things as it is, far more than they usually get.

Marcel Proust

#37. All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

Jeff Iorg

#38. You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

Haruki Murakami

#39. It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I've done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Ivo Andric

#40. Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

Mary Oliver

#41. Be brave-or at least, try to be brave-and good things can happen.

Tommy Greenwald

#42. Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.

Julie Powell

#43. A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man pro- duces evil things from his storeroom of evil. Matthew 12:35

Beth Moore

#44. Patience, young grasshopper," he teased. "Good things come to those who wait." "How very wise of you," I teased back.
Russ shrugged. "I eat a lot of fortune cookies.

Kelly Oram

#45. Give me the right people and I don't much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn't matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.

Colin Powell

#46. I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.

Matthew Quick

#47. The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean ... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Truman Capote

#48. Get up in the morning and invite good things into your life. I am blessed. I am strong. I am talented. I am wise. I am disciplined. I am focused. I am prosperous.

Joel Osteen

#49. When you work hard, good things happen

Allen Iverson

#50. Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

Shellie Palmer

#51. The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things ... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

Rob Zombie

#52. rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members.

Joshua Greene

#53. You can't live the rest of your days feeling bitter and spiteful," David continued. "It'll eat you up inside and keep you from enjoying the good things that will come your way later on. And there will be good things, I promise you that.

Julianne MacLean

#54. All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.

Justin Verlander

#55. You know what they say; all good things come to those who wait." "Never is a very long time to wait." He chuckled. "There's a lot to be said for delayed gratification, you know. Given half a chance, I'd delay yours for a very long time - hours maybe." "That's

Victoria Vane

#56. You are worthy of good things, and you are a deserving and beautiful person.

Bryant McGill

#57. So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

Rainbow Rowell

#58. In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.

Daniel Defoe

#59. It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

Jenny Lewis

#60. I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.

Terry O'Quinn

#61. Good things come in small packages.
Shopping isn't a good thing, so be ready to carry big packages!

Shubham Choudhary

#62. According to Aristotle, envy is pain for the presence of good things in others, whereas emulation is pain for their absence in us. This is a subtle but critical difference. Unlike envy, which is self-defeating, emulation is a good thing because it makes us take steps towards securing good things.

Neel Burton

#63. The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#64. Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

LeBron James

#65. I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

Joan Cusack

#66. No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

Meek Mill

#67. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

Richard Dawkins

#68. People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.

Evan Williams

#69. I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

Kim Dotcom

#70. I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.

Ali Lohan

#71. Bad things happen wherever they get a mind to, but good things don't happen at all unless you go looking for them.

Olga Grushin

#72. The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

Manoj Bhargava

#73. Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

Suze Orman

#74. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.

Amy Zhang

#75. Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden

Anne Rice

#76. Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

Joseph Delaney

#77. Lord, whatever You ask of me, I will do ... . Whatever You send or allow in my life, I will accept ... . With Your help I will endeavor to put the best things before good things ... . I present all that I am to You as a slave to Your purposes ... . I surrender it all to You. Amen.

Kurt Bjorklund

#78. As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.

Jason Silva

#79. There are some masters from whom you can learn good things. Streets are one of those masters!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Edmund Burke

#81. Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

Bryant McGill

#82. True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#83. The more you take care of the good things in your life, the longer they stick around and the better they become.

Maci Bookout

#84. I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#85. I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.

Courtney Summers

#86. Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

Paulo Coelho

#87. French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

Mireille Guiliano

#88. I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

Allen Iverson

#89. Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

Audrey Hepburn

#90. When good things happen in the moment of happiness a ball of light will appear. It's not known what it is. What is certain though is that it is a sign of happiness. And if one could obtain it they could grant a single wish... -Yukine Miyazawa After Story ep. 8

Key

#91. God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us.

Kevin DeYoung

#92. I wish you the Love of friends and family...And Peace within your heart.
I wish you the Beauty of nature.
I wish you Generosity so you may share...All good things that come to you.
I wish you Happiness and Joy.

Unknown

#93. Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.

Bryant McGill

#94. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Marie De Gournay

#95. Remind yourself of all the things you love about life, stay in touch with your loved ones and friends, and do what your own heart tells you to. Your tomorrow will always bring you good things if you live each day with love.

Donna Levin

#96. You need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming - if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Mike Watt

#97. I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

Nimrat Kaur

#98. You shouldn't be looking for people slipping up, you should be looking for all the good things people do and praising those.

Richard Branson

#99. I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

Manny Mota

#100. Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.

Marc Crawford