John F. Kennedy Quotes

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

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

You have to make it happen.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

If you really want to do something, go and do it; don't just talk about it.

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Be a doer and not a critic.

If you want to do things, do things.

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Either move or be moved.

You don't have to be something to do something.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.