Top 100 Things To Happen Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.
Dave Eggers
#3. I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.
Kristin Cashore
#4. I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.
Angela Sarafyan
#5. True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.
Don McPherson
#6. Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!
Sasha Azevedo
#7. If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.
Donella H. Meadows
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow.
Sohail Mahmood
#11. God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.
Joyce Meyer
#12. Power Thought: I expect good things to happen in my life today.
Joyce Meyer
#13. You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
Tom Hopkins
#14. People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.
Rohit Sharma
#15. If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.
Bryant H. McGill
#16. Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.
John Wooden
#17. Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. It's not about sitting back and waiting for things to happen. It's a mindful trust and complete collaboration with what is present here and now.
Deepak Chopra
#18. Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
Roy Bennett
#19. Don't set limits on what you can or can't do. Don't set limits on what is or isn't worthy of your time. Dare yourself to "play games" with your day: watch, wait, listen; allow things to happen.
Anonymous
#20. Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.
John Piper
#21. Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
Sylvia Plath
#22. God has a plan for each of our lives. As hard as it is to understand and as painful as it might be, sometimes that even means Him allowing bad things to happen in order for His purpose to be fulfilled.
Cherlisa Starks Richardson
#23. 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
#24. A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
George Eliot
#27. He keeps wishing for impossible things to happen. Like to see the stars while it's raining and for the person he loves to love him back.
Anonymous
#28. Out of the 6.8 billion people in the world, these girls wanted their lives to end, wanted negative things to happen to them. In my world, that wasn't normal. I probably wasn't normal in their world, either.
Jessamine Verzosa
#29. You're afraid to do anything but wish for things to happen to you
Danielle Paige
#30. I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.
Mark Mulder
#31. 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
#32. Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
Lynsey Addario
#33. What was the truth about the camera? he wondered.
Does the camera show the future?
Or does it actually cause bad things to happen?
R.L. Stine
#34. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
Eileen Caddy
#35. Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#36. Passively sitting around and waiting for things to happen only leaves things up to chance, which you have no control over.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#37. Please, I want so badly for good things to happen.
(3 months before her suicide)
Sylvia Plath
#38. While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.
David Rangel
#39. The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen ... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist
#40. We pray with sometimes unseemly insistence for specific things to happen. We give no thought to the myriad ways in which they might come to pass.
John Burgess
#41. She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#42. I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.
Winston Churchill
#43. 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
#44. Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
Karl R. Popper
#45. I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.
Robin Wright
#46. My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
John Barton
#47. Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.
Starhawk
#48. The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.
Mary McCarthy
#49. Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
Billy Graham
#50. I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.
Dwayne McDuffie
#51. Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'
Brian Tracy
#52. I think what I really mean is that [she] won't be WANTING things to happen. She will want things to say just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exciting may be just round the corner.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#53. Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.
Herschel Walker
#54. 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
#55. You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen
Robin Roberts
#56. I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.
Sloane Crosley
#57. When we think the universe moves. When we think we actually cause things to happen.
Robert Anthony
#58. Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#59. Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.
John C. Malone
#60. I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.
Erland Josephson
#61. When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan
#62. Don't wait for things to happen by luck, cause its an uncertain thing anyway.
Giridhar Alwar
#63. In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.
Chandler Riggs
#64. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.
Lorrie Moore
#65. When you know what's going to be happen, its better to move away than waiting for things to happen.
Nutan Bajracharya
#66. Having an adventure is sometimes just a matter of going out and allowing things to happen in a strange and amazing new environment - not so much a physical challenge as a psychic one.
Rolf Potts
#67. Now, a leader must cause things to happen and lives to be affected. Something should move and change. He must see that those under him do not fail. But it should be done in the Lord's way.
James E. Faust
#68. Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Lewis Carroll
#69. I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Loretta Lynn
#70. Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.
Gary Renard
#72. I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.
Michael Ondaatje
#73. I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.
Robin Wright
#74. Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.
Frederick Lenz
#75. If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire.
Hina Hashmi
#76. In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
Warren Moon
#77. I lost my ability to will things to happen.
Tiger Woods
#78. Sometimes it's hard to wait for good things to happen. - Tia Isa
Meg Medina
#79. Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he causes things to happen ... it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.
Gregory Bateson
#80. Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen,
not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you
or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
#81. We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.
Don Lee
#82. People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move.
Robin Sacredfire
#83. Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#84. Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
Boyd K. Packer
#85. When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.
Gordon Ramsay
#87. I am incensed that reality has the audacity to do some of the things it does when I CLEARLY don't want those things to happen.
Allie Brosh
#88. Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That's why I decided to start Amber House Books.
Teresa Medeiros
#89. What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.
Rebecca Goldstein
#90. What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.
Frederick Lenz
#91. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Daniel J. Boorstin
#92. I imagine that anyone who goes through trauma like I have wonders the same things I do: how God can exist and allow such awful things to happen. There are no reasons for my parents' death, and that's that.
Jessica Park
#93. It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day.
Jonathan Dee
#94. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Charlotte Eriksson
#95. I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#96. I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you."
Benjamin Carson
#97. For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.
Rony Abovitz
#98. Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
Ben Vereen
#100. After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.
Nicolas Bouvier
