Steve-O Quotes

Be a doer and not a critic.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I believe you have to make things happen.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

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.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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

Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.