Jim Lovell Quotes

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

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

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

If you do the job out there on the pitch and you have it under control, as in my case, you want more. You want more responsibility. You want to take care of it all. That is the case with me.

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

I want to lead. I want to change. And I'm going to do it.