Things - Quotes

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. - John Ruskin

All good things must come to an end. - H.H. Riley

All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. - Steven Covey

All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller

All things are only transitory. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All things come round to him who will but wait. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

All things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao Tzu

All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. - Zig Ziglar

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - Bertolt Brecht

Good things come in small packages. - Aesop

Good things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for. Better things come to those who try. - Unknown

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. - Parks Cousins

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves. - R. Reese

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves. - Carl Jung

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. - Paulo Coelho

Many things are lost for want of asking. - George Herbert

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. - Margot Fonteyn

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. - Unknown

Never stop doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their heart. - Unknown

One thing leads to another. - Unknown

Other people’s things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. - Publilius Syrus

See things as they are, rather than how you expect them to be or how you think they should be. - Unknown  

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. - John Dryden 

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives. - Henry David Thoreau

Take things always by their smooth handle. - Thomas Jeffeson

Take things as they come. But try to make things come as you would like to take them. - Curt Goetz

That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along. - Madeleine K. L'Engle

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. - Unknown

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember. - Seneca

 
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. - Seneca

The things that count most in life are the things that can’t be counted. - Zig Ziglar

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. - Kalu Kalu 

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. - Tom Robbins

There are things in life we don’t want to happen, but have to accept; things we don’t want to know, but have to learn, and people we can’t live without, but have to let go. - Unknown

There is one common flow, one common breathing. All things are in sympathy. - Hippocrates

Things do not get better by being left alone. - Winston Churchill

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. - Baltasar Gracian

Things don’t have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs

Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. - Samuel Johnson

Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. - James Garfield 

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about… things that are past, it is needless to blame. - Confucius

Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way thing turns out. - John Wooden

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. - John Wooden

When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe. - Rob Thurman

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin

What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. - Unknown

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. - William Hazlitt

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. - William Wordsworth