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 happiness - 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

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice"
~ 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

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
-- Marian Wright Edelman

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

When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put you whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action expresses priorities.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it”
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

* "Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience."
~ Lois Gibbs

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
~ Jane Goodall

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ~ Thomas Jefferson

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
-- Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-- Helen Keller

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

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

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end”
-- 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

“Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it. Spread it. Radiate it. Think day and night about it and you will see a miracle happen: the greatness of your own life.”
-- Robert Muller

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

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

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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

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