Barack Obama Quotes

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

The gods help them that help themselves.