Sayings about Events
Great events may stem from words of no importance. ~ Congolese Proverb
It is easy to be wise after the event. ~ Traditional Proverb
Time is a river of passing events — a rushing torrent. ~ Greek Proverb
Events follow one another like the days of the week. ~ Tanzanian Proverb
Quotations about Events
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. ~ Sharon Draper
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ~ Richard Bach
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. ~ Samuel Adams
It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ~ Barbara Sher
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ~ Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ~ Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. ~ Og Mandino Quotes
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ~ Anthony Robbins
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event. ~ Gaston Bachelard
It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. ~ Karen Armstrong
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. ~ Edwin Way Teale
Great events have sent before them their announcements. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.~ Robert F. Kennedy
Events are influenced by our very great desires. ~ William James
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation. ~ Eudora Welty
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ~ Epictetus
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ~ Maya Angelou
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ~ George Orwell
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ~ Hermann Ebbinghaus
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.~ Thornton Wilder
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.~ Denis Diderot
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ~ Dan Quayle
When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves. ~ Henry Ford
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~ Marcus Aurelius
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ~ Andre Maurois
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us– and those around us — more effectively. Look for the learning. ~ Eric Allenbaugh
Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance. ~ Henry S. Haskins
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~ Bob Newhart
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. ~ Titus Livy
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ~ Jim Rohn
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world’s greatest events are not produced, they happen. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.~ William James
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. ~ William Cowper
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. ~ Harry S. Truman Quotes
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ~ Queen Victoria
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.~ Francis Bacon
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. ~ Richard M. Nixon
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event — it is a habit. ~ Aristotle Quotes
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~ J. B. Priestley
Life happens at the level of events, not words. ~ Alfred Adler
