Winston Churchill Quotes

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

Nothing happens until you decide.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

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

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

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

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

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

Make choices-not excuses.

Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.