Barry Sheene Quotes

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Stop whining, start hustling.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

If you want to do something, you find a way.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

Once the opportunities knock on your door, you've got to try and go get them. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But at the same time, you've got to keep going.

I believe in following opportunities.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.