Quotes about Action

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.

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.

You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.