Good Things Quotes - Page 39

• There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning hatred for, so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tension, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and example of love and of faith!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hate, Block, Hatred

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• It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Taxes Funny, Pay

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• Every good thing great and small needs defense

  John Muir

  Needs, Defense, Very Good

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.1701, e-artnow

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• Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blessed, Action, Very Good

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.27, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• 'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

  John Dryden

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Positive Thinking, Creating, Want

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.

  Ronda Rousey

  Dream, Jobs, Believe

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• Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Genesis

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

  Conor McGregor

  Grateful, Mma, Appreciate

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• Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fall, Mma, Rivers

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• When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.

  Danny Castillo

  Fall, Mma, Things In Life

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• Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

  Forrest Griffin

  Mma, Doing What You Want, Needs

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• It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

  Dave Grohl

  Fun, Ideas, Trying

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  People, Want, Strings

  "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.

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• It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

  Charles Frazier

  War, Too Much, Terrible

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

  Ingrid Law

  Together, Might, Good And Bad

  Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.302, Penguin

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• Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

  Miroslav Volf

  Helping, Substitutes, Bases

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• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, Would Be, Development

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• Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

  Patrick Marleau

  Winning, Hands, Games

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• The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Law, Ideas

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing.

  Holly Smale

  Caring, Thinking, Differences

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophy, Book, Hands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Complaining, Moments, Consideration

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• When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

  Winston Churchill

  Want

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.368, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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