Quotes about Initiating Change

Four or five years ago I decided to stop cursing the darkness - I had been complaining about movies and their content for years - and instead to do something about it by getting into the film business.

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Well, the first hole's the hardest," Magnet said.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

Action is the fundamental key to success.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand

Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.

You know me now. I'm only good at beginnings.

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

I don't believe in circumstances. 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.

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

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

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.