Quotes about Action

But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power. Issues

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.

If your next-door neighbor's house is on fire, you don't want the fire department dispatcher asking whether it was caused by lightning or by someone smoking in bed before agreeing to send a fire truck; you just want the fire put out before it reaches your house.

The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

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

Justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.