Charles Dickens Quotes

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

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

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

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

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

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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 know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You've just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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.