Auberon Waugh Quotes

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

The idle always have a mind to do something.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.