Dave Holland Quotes

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

I believe you have to make things happen.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

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 around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

To some extent, 'The Wall' is asking the question, 'Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it's not going to be handed to you on a plate.'

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

I've got to literally write my own ticket.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!