Ben Vereen Quotes

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

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

If you rest, you rust.

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.