Quotes on Make It Happen

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

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.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.