Suzy Amis Quotes

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I believe you have to make things happen.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

Action always beats inaction.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.