H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

We must compete or retreat.

Even if you’re on the right track, you can get run over if your not going fast enough.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Success is 99 percent failure.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

There is no longer time for statements like 'if only' or 'we can't.' We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.