Things Happen Quotes

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Happen, Attention

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden

Happen, Big, Details

Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais Nin

Good, Happen, Hustle

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good, Bad, Happen

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek

Sad, Live, Happen

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann

Happen, Give, Wait

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
Scott Caan

Good, Happen, Priorities

Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Yo-Yo Ma

Good, Happen, Meet

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Happen, Cricket

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
James A. Lovell

Successful, Person, Happen

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
Deepak Chopra

Happen, Try, Whole

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Natalie du Toit

Positive, Bad, Happen

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
William Shatner

Happen, Purpose

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Steven Spielberg

War, Down, Happen

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom

Happen, Remember, Two

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
Emeril Lagasse

Life, Happen, Hand

I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'
Lil Wayne

Happen, Wrong, Ok

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
Heidi Klum

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine

Funny, Movies, Happen

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus

Time, Happen, Few

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.
Archie Panjabi

Happen, Why, Reason

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.
Sofia Vergara

Happen, Complain, Fearless

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Tom Robbins

Change, Happen, Place

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson

Great, Happen, Jesus

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
Simon Travaglia

Life, Death, Happen

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
Robert Collier

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Mind, Happen, Mankind

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Corazon Aquino

Yourself, Forget, Democracy

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.
Rachel McAdams

Powerful, Happen, Pretty

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Government, Happen, Understand

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