Top 100 Quotes About Good Things That Happen
#1. When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,
Paulo Coelho
#2. And when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. I
Paulo Coelho
#3. The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.
Jenny Colgan
#4. The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
Adriana Trigiani
#5. When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
Paulo Coelho
#6. The core of literature is the idea of tragedy ... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
Cormac McCarthy
#7. Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours.
Carlos Fuentes
#8. You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.
Paulo Coelho
#10. I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?
Meghan Trainor
#11. I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.
George W. Bush
#12. He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.
Paulo Coelho
#13. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Max Gray
#14. And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
Sebastian Faulks
#15. Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.
Gordon Willis
#16. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
Maya Banks
#17. Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.
Keke Palmer
#18. 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
#19. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.
John Gerzema
#20. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.
Peter Mullan
#22. Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" we might ask - the very question that betrays our misplaced assumption that we somehow deserve a good life.
Tim Chaddick
#23. I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
Chuck Lorre
#24. A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#25. Breath is the power behind all things ... I breathe in and know that good things will happen.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
#26. The difference is that raving fans, unlike satisfied customers, become part of your sales force. They tell friends, family and co-workers about your services and your products. And, of course, good things will happen!
Mac Anderson
#27. I just am a believer ... that there are some things that happen for a reason ... We may not be able to really discern it now ... [but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.
Eric Cantor
#28. In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
John Hench
#29. I don't believe things happen by accident. I think that everything that comes into our life, even the really hard things, are intended for good. That they can shape us positively if we'll embrace them and remain teachable and purpose to use that almost like fertilizer to grow out of the experience.
Michael Hyatt
#30. 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
#31. That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
Sallust
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday.
Azhar Ali
#35. I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Benazir Bhutto
#36. Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.
Marcus Aurelius
#37. The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again "dang it" moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.
Jaha Knight
#38. In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.
Buck Brannaman
#39. But if we don't have faith that he can feel better, even get better, then how is he supposed to keep the faith that good things might happen? Nathan
Jojo Moyes
#40. Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.
Renee Zellweger
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?
Gabrielle Zevin
#44. 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
#45. That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair?
Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people.
Peter Kreeft
#46. I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.
Michael Redd
#47. Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
Ann Voskamp
#48. 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
#49. But if you know that you've got to be somewhere in half an hour, there's no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There's not always a lot of time for other things.
David Lynch
#50. 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
#51. I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good.
Jennette McCurdy
#52. Learn to accept things, learn to understand things that they're happening because it's for our own good. No matter what happen, just always remember that If that thing didn't happen, I wouldn't be what I am now.
Jayson Engay
#53. The reason for such an "unreasonable" attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.
Carl Jung
#54. Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.
Darin Strauss
#55. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things
Cormac McCarthy
#56. It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.
Louis Armstrong
#57. It is not love that keeps us stuck in the past. Love fades over time. What introspective hearts seek is simply unanswered questions about why terrible things can happen to very good people. Closure never comes from reflection. It only comes from God's guidance and promptings.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. Life is like a Sunset and Sunrise, when sun goes down it will raise back again next day, life is also same way, sometimes we have to face good as well as bad situation which will help us to learn new things which we never excepted that will happen.
Madhu
#59. A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.
Donald Barthelme
#60. Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.
Joyce Meyer
#61. I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.
Melissa Marr
#62. I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.
Jojo Moyes
#63. We're always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we're somehow above experiencing a tragedy, but we learned that's all bullshit.
Matt Abrams
#64. Laugh when good things happen. Laugh when bad things happen. Laugh when life is so plain boring that you can't find anything amusing about it beyond the fact that it's so utterly unamusing.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.
Steven Knight
#66. Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.
Conor McGregor
#67. Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.
Nicholas Kristof
#68. If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
John Steinbeck
#69. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.
Margaret Feinberg
#70. I understand that sometimes awful things happen in life, through no fault of our own. I also know that sometimes really amazing, wonderful things happen too. The trick is to focus on the good things and learn to live with the bad.
E. Kelly
#71. You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.
Ingrid Law
#72. that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen
Nicola Yoon
#73. I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
Tony Dungy
#74. I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.
Tony Gwynn
#75. He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.
Stephanie Witter
#76. Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.
Jonathan Goldstein
#77. The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.
Wayne Hale
#78. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad
Fred Gipson
#79. As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.
Susanne Bier
#80. 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
#81. Here's the thing: No matter where I go, sad things will happen to me, hard things. People I love will die, and sometimes I'll have to tell friends good-bye. I'll meet people who won't like me, and I'll know loneliness. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
Jennifer Archer
#82. People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.
Nicola Yoon
#83. Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#84. 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
#85. Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.
Peace Pilgrim
#86. The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that it won't really get better for them.
Allison M. Dickson
#87. The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.
Ciara
#88. I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.
Kristen D. Randle
#89. 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
#90. Convinced that if she wished hard enough, good things would finally happen.
Jojo Moyes
#91. The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
Nathan Myhrvold
#92. There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.
Irene Hannon
#93. I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.
Erlend Loe
#94. I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.
Carrie Underwood
#95. I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with
him.
Nicholas Sparks
#96. I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.
Curtis Jackson
#97. I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.
Cameron Crowe
#98. Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.
James Sinegal
#99. Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable.
April Mae Monterrosa
#100. To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
Marshall Curry
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