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* If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou

* If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou

* There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
-- James A. Baldwin

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
-- Bono

* The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
-- Bono

I have discovered the secret of happy- it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
~ John Burroughs

* "...what’s the worst thing that could happen if you fail? Think big, and go for it! Some days will be challenging and frustrating, but if you are doing what you want, they will never be boring. What more can we ask for?"
-- Ami Dar

* “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
-- W. E. B. DuBois

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

* "Every life needs a purpose to which it can give the energies of its mind and the enthusiasm of its heart. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

* Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
-- Benjamin Franklin

* Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

* Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.
-- Hazel Henderson

* "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
~ Thomas Jefferson

* There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
-- John F. Kennedy

* If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like. -- John Lennon

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses and you're all beautiful. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace. Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like. -- John Lennon

* You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln

* "If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
-- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

"Dread and procrastination are great time stealers.
Don't be a foot dragger.
Some things just need to be done. Just do it!"
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)

"Dread and procrastination
are great time stealers.
Don't be a foot dragger.
Some things just need to be done.
Just do it!"
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)

* This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.
-- Barack Obama

* It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. 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.
-- Barack Obama

* 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.
-- Barack Obama

* If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
-- Dolly Parton

* One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

* Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

* I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
-- Bertrand Russell

* Every moment has led to this moment. Now is the time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Together we can create a better world.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

"Human history has been recorded as a succession of wars and changing empires. But a ray of hope has been carried forth throughout the ages by dreamers who have envisioned a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. The Magna Carta, the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were quantum leaps forward in our collective quest for a better world. We still have far to go, but we can help create that better world countless dreamers have imagined, wished for and endeavored to make come true. Every moment has brought us to this moment. We are the ones we've been waiting for to manifest our shared peacetopian dream."
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

* We can help create that better world countless Dreamers have imagined, wished for, and endeavored to make come true. Every moment has brought us to this moment. We are the ones we've been waiting for to manifest our shared Peacetopian Dream...
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

* Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

* Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
-- Bradley Whitford

* Doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.

-- Oprah Winfrey

* Doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.

-- Oprah Winfrey

* The beginning is always today.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

* I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.
-- Muhammad Yunus

 

 

 

 
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