"Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Stephen King
It's one of those lines that outgrew its source material.
Stephen King wrote it in 1982 for a story about a wrongfully imprisoned banker named Andy Dufresne, and by the time the 1994 film adaptation put it in Andy's mouth on screen, it had become something closer to a personal mantra for anyone who's ever felt stuck - which is to say, almost everyone.
The genius of the line is its refusal to offer a third option.
It doesn't say rest, or wait, or figure it out later.
