Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'

You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.