Seth Godin Quotes

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

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

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

The gods help them that help themselves.

For me, nothing is given.

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

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

We can act instead of being acted upon.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.