120+ Best Make It Happen Quotes to Reach Your Best Life

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Famous Make It Happen Quotes

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. — Bradley Whitford

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen. — Wayne Huizenga

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck. — Lorii Myers

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right. — Lorii Myers

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. — Ralph Marston

Stop waiting for things to happen. Go out and make them happen.

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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen. — Bobby Knight

People with great passion can make the impossible happen.

I want to make history and just show people that if you have determination and if you want to work hard enough and want something, you can make it happen. — Carmella

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don’t try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen. — Wanda Jackson

If you want something, you can’t wait for someone to make it happen for you. — Jon Huertas

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

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ― Les Brown

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen. — Geoff Mulgan

A lot of people have these fancy facilities, these fancy training atmospheres, high-tech this and that… I believe it’s about the fighter and how much work is he willing to put. I’m trying to show the world that I can make it happen from a garage. People don’t believe it, but I know how to work with what I’ve got to get to the top. — Brian Ortega

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her. — Steve Harvey

I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely. ― Alexandra Elle

Find a way and make it happen: I’ve always been the type of person who couldn’t rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn’t go around the rock, I’d find a way to go over it or under it or through it. — Joy Mangano

Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don’t even dream of coming down. — Michael Bassey Johnson

We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the way more than we want to put in the work to make it happen – and it is easier not to try. — Rick Tumlinson

Stop wishing for something to happen and go make it happen.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen. — Ben Carson

You have to do what it takes to get what you want: I didn’t sleep much in school because I worked a lot – you figure out how to make it happen. — Stacy Brown-Philpot

powerful make it happen quotes

In business, there’s a saying: ‘Disagree and commit.’ It means that everyone should speak up before a decision is made. But once the boss has decided, you all get behind it to make it happen. — Steve Hilton

Inspirational Make It Happen Quotes

It’s our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That’s what at the end of the day defines us. — Satya Nadella

Stop complaining and start doing. — Kevin Abdulrahman

Spin is a tricky thing. When you’re trying to avoid it – say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees – it’s easy to make it happen. — Ernie Els

My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There’s no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen. — Millicent Simmonds

Once people tell me I can’t do stuff, I’m going to go and make it happen. — T-Pain

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. — Earl Nightingale

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. ― Gretel Ehrlich

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. — Cher

If someone else isn’t making it happen for you, make it happen yourself. — Lauren Miller

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ― Rumi

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. — Germany Kent

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. — Tommy Lasorda

We’ve all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you’ve got to make it happen and fight through it. — Tristan Thompson

I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen. — Sherilyn Fenn

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow – with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present – then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that’s where we’re headed. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

popular make it happen quotes

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen. — Corin Nemec

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen. — Hope Jahren

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. — Carol Burnett

The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before. ― Tyler J. Hebert

If you really are passionate about it, you’re just going to find a way to make it happen. — Keiynan Lonsdale

If you want to be happy, be. ― Tolstoy Leo

I follow my own head. And if I’m determined to do something, then I’ll make sure that I make it happen. — Laura Dekker

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what. — Teena Marie

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

That’s the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen. — Billy Magnussen

At one point, I was in a place where it didn’t feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You’ve got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen. — Zachary Knighton

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn’t mean you have to go around telling everyone about it. — Tony McCoy

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. — Diana Ross

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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn’t there, then we don’t make it happen. — Dan Levitan

I’m a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the Avengers, I would go with Thor. I would have to. I just think I look the part too much, and I’m a fan of all of them, but Thor would be something that I think I could put on. I think I could make it happen. — Derek Theler

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. — Wayne Dyer

Every moment contains an opportunity to create feelings of satisfaction and excitement in a customer. It’s up to retailers to make it happen. — Neil Blumenthal

Waves of positivity and possibilities send tiny ripples of hope to wash away the walls of negativity. ― Debasish Mridha

Let’s Make It Happen Quotes

You have to make it happen. — Denis Diderot

I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman… Let’s make it happen. — Stephan James

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen. — Howard Schultz

Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate. ― Dr. Roopleen

Things will not always go as planned. Don’t sit around and wish for better. Get up and make it happen. — Christine E. Szymanski

We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen. — Nadia Murad

‘Make it happen’ is the standing order, and ‘Yes, chef’ is the only response. — David Chang

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. — Lee Iacocca

I’m sorry, but nothing ‘just happens’. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it. — Jessie Jones

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen. — Danny Ings

When you find your ‘why’, you find a way to make it happen. — Eric Thomas

Skip the excuses and find a way to make it happen. — Wesam Fawzi

You can’t make good scores happen. You’ve got to let it happen. — Ken Venturi

Anything in life is possible if you make it happen. — Jack LaLanne

Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It’s a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That’s all it is. I didn’t have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I’m from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same. — French Montana

I leave my career totally to the creative staff and Vince McMahon. Whatever they give me to do, I’ll go and I’ll just perfect it and make it happen. — R-Truth

I’m not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business. — Foster Friess

If you want to act, do school plays. If they’re not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen. — William Kircher

I don’t like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that’s happening, stuff that’s going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen. — Fred Wilson

It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen. — Arvind Kejriwal

I really saw my mom advocate on my behalf and really say, ‘Hey, you’re good enough.’ It was from her that I learned that just because something hasn’t been done before, it doesn’t mean it can’t be done now. You have to speak up, and you’ve got to assert yourself because it takes somebody to be the first one to make it happen. — Kimberly Guilfoyle

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time. — Ronnie Dunn

Being an entrepreneur can be learned, and that is exactly what I have done. You don’t have to be born with it or have had the ‘lemonade stand.’ But, you do need to have the passion, devotion, conviction, and sheer will and drive to make it happen. — Julia Hartz

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ― Sigmund Freud

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen. — Dan Rosensweig

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O’Malley

I don’t think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen. — Scott Kelly

Finally I’d found this way where I didn’t need a record label; I didn’t need to wait for some phone call to tell me, ‘Go and do it’. It’s like, I’m going to get up with a bag of CDs and an amp and my guitar and make it happen for myself. That was such a liberating feeling, and I think it was the start of everything. — Passenger

When you’re a co-host, you’ve got to consider what the other person is saying and take the next step and get the laugh or get to the end of the story. You’ve got to make it happen and then move on to the next story. — Regis Philbin

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. — Brian Mulroney

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds – to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time. — Renny Harlin

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened. — Tommy Lasorda

If you are breathing, you are still alive. If you are alive, then you are still here, physically, on this planet. If you are still here, then you have not completed what you were put on earth to do. If you have not completed what you were put on earth to do … that means your very purpose has not yet been fulfilled. If your purpose has not yet been fulfilled, then the most important part of your life has not yet been lived. ― Andy Andrews

I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much. — Wiz Khalifa

I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen. — Tina Fey

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen. — Andrew W.K.

I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You’ve just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen. — Aisling Bea

GoPro represents everything that excites me in a company – incredible products, compelling content, a world-renowned brand and, above all, amazing people who make it happen. — Tony Bates

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow. — Kevin Hart

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen. — Ruth Glick

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy. — Joyce Meyer

The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn’t find anywhere. Sometimes when you see a need for something in your own life and you can’t get it, you feel crazy enough to make it happen yourself. — Kathryn Minshew

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen. — Jens Lekman

It can be isolating to be an entrepreneur… you have to keep hustling to make it happen and that can be lonely. — Miguel McKelvey

Know what it is that drives you – motivates you – and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen. — Peggy Whitson

I became more part of the industry after quitting acting. I contribute greatly to the industry, as I bring in talent, provide money in the chain, and make it happen. — Pooja Bhatt

It’s amazing how much people want to meet the other. You just got to, you know, help make it happen. — Nuseir Yassin

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen. — Steve Brown

I just thank God that I didn’t grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen. — Kim Basinger

I love my work, apart from when it’s driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I’m buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen. — Lucy Walker

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. — Taylor Steele

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, ‘I’m going to switch careers to do it,’ or they are often not retained… because the salaries and the compensation aren’t there to make it happen. — Melinda Gates

However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves. — Mario Testino

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