Top 100 Sometimes You Have Quotes
#1. I have learned that chances don't always come to you; sometimes you have to create your own.
Abeer Allan
#2. Sometimes, you have to raze things to the ground before you can start over. Sear away the past, to pave the way for a bright future.
Julie Johnson
#3. Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.
Scarlett Thomas
#4. Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you've done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven't done.
Brock Clarke
#5. Sometimes you have to leave things behind to understand their true value.
Adam Braun
#6. It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.
Kenneth Edmonds
#7. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
Jeanette Winterson
#8. Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Ray Bradbury
#9. Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
Frances Mayes
#10. Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#11. Sometimes you have to show someone that you're willing to run through a wall before they'll open the front door.
Adam Braun
#12. Sometimes you have to sacrifice something you love, if you don't want to lose everything you have.
Madeleine George
#13. I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.
Diane Lane
#14. Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head.
Colors Insulting To Nature
Cintra Wilson
#15. Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.
Mike Murdock
#16. You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.
Sarah Morgan
#17. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself ...
Donald Miller
#18. Sometimes you have to go through a total loss of inspiration to find what really inspires you the most.
Dirk Mai
#19. Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
Pearl Cleage
#20. Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
Walter Inglis Anderson
#21. Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don't, it fills you up with its emptiness.
Kiera Cass
#22. I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
Ed O'Neill
#23. If you can't see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever "see" something different.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. Life isn't about drinking cool aide. Sometimes you have to take the castor oil too.
Jennifer Donohoe
#25. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.
Trent Reznor
#26. Judgment doesn't always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.
Heather Day Gilbert
#27. Sometimes, there is nothing more you can do. Sometimes there is nothing more left to understand. Sometimes, there is a world beyond, waiting for you. Sometimes, it is just not worth it. Sometimes, you have to let go.
Preeti Bhonsle
#28. You can't know everything. Sometimes you have to trust. Sometimes you have to just feel.
Nora Roberts
#29. Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives ...
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#30. Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.
A.D. Posey
#32. If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.
Ron Hall
#34. Sometimes you have to do what's right even when the law says it's wrong.
Matt Coyle
#35. Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
Flula Borg
#37. Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.
Aaron Starmer
#38. Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.
Jared Leto
#39. Evan to Bethany: "Just trust me."
"You say it like it's so easy."
"Of course it's not."
"Then how am I supposed to 'just trust' you?"
"Funny thing about trust ... Sometimes you have to give it before you can experience it.
Katie Ganshert
#40. We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
Vera Wang
#41. Girl, you're going to be all right. You haven't forgotten the essentials. You know about defending yourself. All you have to do now is remember ... sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself.
Maya Angelou
#42. Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
Max Greenfield
#43. Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society
Chelsea Manning
#44. In order to get past something terrible, sometimes you have to walk through the pain, not around it. It might be messy. It might make you sob. But if you let yourself cry long enough, you finally reach the bottom of your tears. I haven't reached the bottom yet, but I know that someday I will.
Michelle Knight
#45. To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
Jeffrey Fry
#46. You're the only one who can bring me through this, because I've never trusted someone the way I trust you. I love you so much it hurts sometimes. You have to believe me, that you're the only one who can heal me, Blake.
Meredith Wild
#47. ...sometimes you have to hurt people just to prove you're alive.
Amy Engel
#48. Haven't you ever played Uno? ... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
Brad Meltzer
#49. Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
Jeannette Walls
#50. Sometimes you have to stop to think, regroup and regather yourself and realize how lucky you are to still be living and to still be breathing and still be able to even have a chance.
Ciara
#51. All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.
Gayle Forman
#52. I know heroes exist because i'm my little brother's hero. It isn't easy, it's not always fun, it's full of hard choices, and sometimes you have to put yourself second to help the people you love. But being a hero is a choice
Chris Colfer
#53. Sometimes, you have to do what's best for you, otherwise you're no use to anyone. Nothing good would have come from dragging it out any longer.
Zayn Malik
#54. When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.
Vikram Chandra
#55. Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard the first note of R&B artist Chrisette Michele's debut CD, I was blown away. Her voice is playful but pretty, light but strong - the woman's got soul.
Gayle King
#56. Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.
Graeme Souness
#57. Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results.
Girdhar Joshi
#58. But sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out. I was still waiting for that one to turn out to be true . . .
Alice Clayton
#59. Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
Bob Dylan
#60. My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
Apolo Ohno
#61. I guess what they say is true - sometimes you have to smack up against a brick wall before you can admit it's time to change or die. For me the death was an emotional one. It's taken me this long to figure out I was killing myself by shutting off my true feelings and desires.
Claire Thompson
#62. Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
Jennifer Lopez
#63. Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.
Tori Amos
#64. It's smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It's a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.
Jessica Park
#65. Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.
Christina Aguilera
#66. Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents ... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.
Richard Simmons
#67. Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don't make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.
Charlotte Eriksson
#68. Sometimes you have to get close to the edge to remind yourself what life's about. It's not just about rules or what's on TV tonight. It's about taking a second to look up and admire the universe. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#70. Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
Matt Mullenweg
#71. Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.
Heather Donahue
#72. Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.
Hilary Swank
#73. Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.
Lionel Suggs
#74. I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
Viola Davis
#75. I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.
Chris Messina
#76. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
John Guare
#77. Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.
E'yen A. Gardner
#78. Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious ... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
Denis Villeneuve
#79. Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.
Charles Bukowski
#80. Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient.
Karen Salmansohn
#81. Sometimes you have to care about people the way they need you to care about them.
Michelle Knight
#82. Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.
Jan Karon
#83. Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
Vince McMahon
#84. YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE; SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO.
Brad Lomenick
#85. It's far better to do less and do it well,
than to do too much and do it poorly.
Sometimes you have to push yourself away from the table and say, "I'm full.
Monika Kristofferson
#86. Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"
Jodie Foster
#87. It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.
Steve Hamilton
#88. Sometimes you have to decide which will hurt more: biting your tongue or having your say.
Faydra D. Fields
#89. Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success
Donald Clark
#90. She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don't, they'll fester.
Jenny Han
#91. Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
Brandon Sanderson
#92. Or
to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.
Donna Tartt
#93. One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.
Scott Stossel
#94. I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
Nelly
#95. Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.
Darrell Royal
#96. Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
Malcolm X
#97. Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.
Donald Trump
#98. Sometimes you have to go 'yippee-ki-yay' on a person who deserves it.
Naima Simone
#99. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney
#100. Sometimes you have to give up the easy thing and do the right one,
Charles Lambert
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