Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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.

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?

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

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

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

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

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

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

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

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.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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.

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.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

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

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.

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

You can always do something about the problems life gives you.

I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.