Mustafa Ali Quotes

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.

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

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

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

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.

You have to make it happen.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

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

I believe you have to make things happen.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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

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

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.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

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