“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

“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 yourself.”

Diana Ross (1944) American vocalist, music artist and actress

“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”

Bear Grylls (1974) Chief Scout, adventurer, author

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“You can get a much better fee — I tell you as auditors quite frankly — it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.”

L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology

“You bought the girls drinks and you stared at their perfect bodies and you pretended that they liked you. And they pretended that they liked you, too. When you stopped spending money, they got up and pretended that they liked someone else.”

George Alec Effinger book When Gravity Fails

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

“Get this party started on a Saturday night,
Everybody's waitin' for me to arrive.
Sendin' out the message to all of my friends,
We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz.
I got lotsa style, got my gold diamond rings,
I can go for miles if you know what I mean.
I'm comin' up so you better you better get this party started.
I'm comin' up so you better you better get this party started.”

Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter