Good Things Quotes - Page 27

• The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.44, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Reality, Order, Religion

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• When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mean, Mind, Trying

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• If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

  Philip K. Jason

  Believe, People, World

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• No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Faces, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.167

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• Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Needed

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• It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Believe, Waiting, Said

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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• In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

  Neil Strauss

  People, Waiting, Missing

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Reading, Exercise

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Smoking, Comedian

  "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.

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• We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, President, Want

  "Obama Jokes: 'The Good Thing As President, I Can Do Whatever I Want'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 10, 2014.

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• Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Want, Action, Having Patience

  Twitter post from Sep 5, 2014

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• The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough
  about good things.

  Larry Crabb

  Passionate, Problem, Enough

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• I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.

  Gabi Hollows

  Believe, Helping Others, Thinking

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• Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.

  Tom Peters

  Gratitude, Flower, Two

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• Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us;
  but the greatest is love

  Alan Jackson

  And Love, Faith Hope, Faith Hope And Love

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• From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

  Solomon

  Men, Fruit, Lips

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• Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

  Craig Groeschel

  Volunteer, Leader, World

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• Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

  Dave Ramsey

  Giving, Finance

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.37, Penguin

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• We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Deeds, Good Deeds

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.24, Discovery House

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• Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Dream, Reading, Keys

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• I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

  Drew Barrymore

  Want, Happens, Things Happen

  "Drew Barrymore Style Evolution: From Cute Pigtails To Chanel Dresses" by Michelle Persad, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Littles

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster

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