Shakti Gawain Quotes

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

You have to make it happen.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

I believe you have to make things happen.

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

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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.

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

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

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

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.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Be a doer, not a stewer.