Katie Hill Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

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.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

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.

If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

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.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.