Diana Ross Quotes

I believe in making your own opportunity.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

I'm just going to have to keep working on what I have to and keep chasing my goals.

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.

My parents are really supportive of my interests and try to help make them happen with the tools I need. More importantly, they instilled in me that anything is possible if you work hard to make it happen.

I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

When I was younger, I thought that everything would just come to me eventually, but now I see I have to take the initiative and practise to improve myself.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

Pursuing your dreams involves you accepting where you want to go. Don't allow anybody else to talk you out of things or discourage you from doing whatever you want to do. You can hold on to your dream and never pursue it or you can start pursuing it. If you can see it, or if you can envision it... it can happen.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."