Jill Biden Quotes

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

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.

You have to put in an effort in everything that you do, and you cannot just sit around expecting something to happen.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

If you want to ride the sled, pull it up the hill.

Whatever you do, do it from your heart. It won't happen just by sitting at home.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting, incredible role on a silver platter, you're going to be a real cute skeleton covered in cobwebs when that happens.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

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

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

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.