Bill Johnson Quotes

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?

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

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

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.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

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

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.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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

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

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

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

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'm all about owning your life.

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

If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.