Bruce Dickinson Quotes

Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

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

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

You think that life is fire, that progress is eruption, that wherever you shoot you hit the future. No.

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.