Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Some people just look at opportunities and say, 'Maybe something better might come along; let's wait and see.' But you don't wait. You just grab it and go after it.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

Every time I got opportunities, I did something with it.