Laura Benanti Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

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

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

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

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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

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

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 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 you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

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.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

Life helps those who help themselves.