Leo Sayer Quotes

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

You have to make it happen.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.

Be a doer and not a critic.

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

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I’m not a seat warmer. I want to get in there and make a difference.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

Don’t tell me that it is tough. It is at least as tough as you think it is. But what is the alternative? It is to do nothing?

You don't have to be something to do something.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

The worst thing you can do is sit there and do nothing, right?

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.