Dionne Warwick Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

The gods help them that help themselves.

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

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.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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

Take destiny in your own hands.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.