Sylvia Earle Quotes

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

I know when someone is genuine, and I'm also a big believer in, if you aren't happy with something or you're not feeling passionate, God, you're not a tree, move. Go do something about it.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

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.

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

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.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

I do believe in self-help.

I believe you have to make things happen.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

The best way to be, is to do.

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.

Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I inspire myself.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.