Adjust to your surroundings, because the world don't wait for you.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

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.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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

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

We don't wait for a better future, we create it.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Time and tide wait for no man.