Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

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

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

There are some people, who don’t wait.

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Do what you will, only do something.

Don't wait for your break, make your break. Go make it happen for yourself.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen