Horace Mann Quotes

I believe you have to make things happen.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

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

You have to make it happen.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

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

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

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

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.