Tim Ferriss Quotes

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do 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.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

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

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

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.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

If you want something, you've got to take it.

The time is now, the person is you.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?