Lauren Miller Quotes

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

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

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

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

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

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

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.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

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

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

The gods help them that help themselves.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

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

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.