Ed McMahon Quotes

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

The future belongs to those who change it.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

We can act instead of being acted upon.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Become a fixer, not just a fixture.

It is what it is, it is what you make it.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.