When Things Don't Go Well Quotes

#1. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Jim Rohn

#2. As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

Terry Francona

#3. When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Tom Perrotta

#4. When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

John F. Kennedy

#5. I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing.

Rebecca McNutt

#6. Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like?
Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.

Erin Hunter

#7. It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together.

George Tillman Jr.

#8. I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Ani DiFranco

#9. House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.

Jay Leno

#10. I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

Robin Thicke

#11. Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.

John Katzenbach

#13. If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Michael Schenker

#14. Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

Alan Furst

#15. Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.

J.K. Rowling

#16. No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I will forget that. I want someone to care for me like my dad cared for my mom. And you aren't him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

Mary Harron

#19. When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.

Renny Harlin

#20. If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

Saint Augustine

#21. In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

David Wenham

#22. Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

Janet Burroway

#23. If you rely neither on yourself nor on others, you will rejoice when things go well, and not be aggrieved when they don't.

Yoshida Kenko

#24. We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

Henry Petroski

#25. I didn't crash anything! They said I hit the wires, Don! I didn't see them!" "That explains it. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control." He was laughing at me.

Richard Bach

#26. When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.

Jorge Bucay

#27. I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things just don't work out as well as they do on other days, but that doesn't have anything to do with pressure.

Mesut Ozil

#28. You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

Gary Sinise

#29. Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Stephen Merchant

#30. When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

Joyce Meyer

#31. It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

Nick Jonas

#32. If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don't get too emotional when things go against you.

Walter Schloss

#33. Even when things don't go very well, even when life is hard, it still tends to be a pretty wonderful thing to be alive.

Daniel M. Haybron

#34. Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

Erik Spoelstra

#35. Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.

Katherine Pancol

#36. I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way.

Mira Grant

#37. Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.

Rachel Caine

#38. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

Karl Lagerfeld

#39. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Gladys Knight

#40. The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

Paul Simonon

#41. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

Sherry Turkle

#42. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.

C.M. Stunich

#43. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Alexei Sayle

#44. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.

Kendra Wilkinson

#45. I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that,

Nina Dobrev

#46. What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Jodi Picoult

#47. There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

Eric Thomas

#48. You don't have to show people how successful you are.

Martin Yan

#49. I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

Romesh Wadhwani

#50. Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. You don't seem to need me, and if you don't need me, it is much more gratifying that you want me.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

#51. Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more.

Johny Hendricks

#52. Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.

Mamrie Hart

#53. Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -

Charles Stross

#54. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.

Haruki Murakami

#55. Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.

Dia Reeves

#56. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

Vin Diesel

#57. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

Dean Koontz

#58. I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#59. I don't want to be my limitations. I don't want to be my pain. I don't want to be my embarrassment.

Kim Holden

#60. In truth I don't like Cornish pasties.

Joe Cornish

#61. If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

Isaac Slade

#62. What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Paul Feig