Tim LaHaye Quotes

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

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

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

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

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

God helps those who help themselves.

The gods help them that help themselves.

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

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

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.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

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.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.