When Things Are Going Well Quotes

#1. People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

Neil Young

#2. When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

James Lee Burke

#3. Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

Tony Dungy

#4. It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good ... when things are rough ... then who are you?

Bob Myers

#5. When things are going well, I hate to quit.

Dave Brubeck

#6. A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

Alan Coren

#7. When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

Gautama Buddha

#8. Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

Ryan Giggs

#9. It's easy for men to be friends as close as brothers when they're poor and struggling, but much harder when things are going well. Friends are never as close as blood. Remember that, Rat.

Ken Liu

#10. One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Bryce Courtenay

#11. I pray every day. In the mornings and, before I go to bed. I think it's important to pray not just when things are going bad. When things are going bad, it's easy to pray and ask God to help you out, but it's also important to pray when things are going well and show your appreciation.

Jermain Defoe

#12. If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

Mary Kay Ash

#13. Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly ...

Tony Hsieh

#14. Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I've learned that. But when things aren't going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.

Dan Millman

#15. Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.

John C. Maxwell

#16. Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Garry Kasparov

#17. I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Mary Oliver

#18. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Kevin Allen

#19. Greatness is measured by how one faces adversity. Everyone can be committed when things are going well.

Susan Mallery

#20. People say that the real character of a person becomes clearer in times of diversity rather than in times when things are going well.

Ethan Sandlow

#21. All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.

Roger Staubach

#22. If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Dave Brubeck

#23. You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well.

Carla Harris

#24. When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

Dylan Moran

#25. The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Norman Vincent Peale

#26. Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Carol Bartz

#27. There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

Timothy Spall

#28. I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

Barack Obama

#29. What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

Adam Hasner

#30. Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

Lewis Richmond

#31. The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.

Edward Hirsch

#32. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

Robert Fulghum

#33. It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#34. When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

Jon Richardson

#36. When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.

Haskell Wexler

#37. Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

Aubrey Menen

#38. When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.

Norman Vincent Peale

#39. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

Paul Fleischman

#40. When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

Aaron Sorkin

#41. People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well.

Michelle Falkoff

#42. And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Mats Sundin

#43. When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!

Russell Wilson

#44. When someone asks us "How are things?" we may give a throwaway answer, but our true response is a function of how well our core personal projects are going.

Susan Cain

#45. You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,

John Oliver

#46. What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.

Voltaire

#47. When things [writing] are over, I always think, 'well, I'm never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I'm going to go be a farmer'. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won't happen.

Bo Burnham

#48. The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.

Edward Zander

#49. Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

Frederick Lenz

#50. Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.

Susan Mallery

#51. Any schmuck can be unhappy when things aren't going well, but it takes a truly unique variety of schmuck; a real innovator in the schmuck field to be unhappy when things are going as great as they are for me.

Tropper Jonathan

#52. I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write ... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?

Fiona Apple

#53. I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Viggo Mortensen