Bob Goff Quotes

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

Bob Goff

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• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• If I am meant to do a Bollywood film, I will get it. If not, I won't. I really don't differentiate between industries. As long as I get roles that give me a high, I enjoy it.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Roles
  • Bollywood
  • Industries

• Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Way
  • You
  • Care

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Day
  • Train
  • Fish

• Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Influence

• I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Different
  • Women

• Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all Neither flower nor fruit, Yielding no root For plant, shrub, or tree.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Thoughts
  • Tree
  • Flower

• If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Opinion
  • Grief

• Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.

  

  Amber Benson

• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Present
  • Intelligent
  • Stock

• Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• We want real job creation and a fertile business environment for small business owners.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Real
  • Business
  • Job

• For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

  

  Edward Thorndike

• I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Quality

• Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Suppose
  • Flattered
  • Good Deal

• I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.

  

  Gary Delaney
  • Cause
  • Shock
  • Nutshell

• Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

  

  B. Alan Wallace
  • Cold
  • Mountain

• History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Mankind
  • Prove
  • Democratic

• God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Attention
  • Ideas