Seth Godin Quotes

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Right wins only when we dare and act.

You’ve got to seize an opportunity to make a difference.

Change is realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 20th step.

The future belongs to those who change it.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

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

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

Whatever the problem - be part of the solution

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something.

I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.