Bette Midler Quotes

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.

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

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

I believe in making your own opportunity.

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.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

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

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.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

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

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

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

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

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

If you want to do something, you'll find the space to do it.