George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

I don't believe in hope. I believe in action, if I'm an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

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

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

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

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

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.

Don't think, just do.

You have to make it happen.

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.

You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.

Instead of pondering about what if or what could have been, I'm just going to go out there and do.