Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
—Mother Teresa
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
—James Hillman
Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action.… We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments—and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food—standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen.
—James Hillman
I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better.
—Paul Wellstone
Healing is what happens, not what we do.
—Dora Kunz
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
—Christopher Morley
Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.
—Gayle Forman in Just One Day
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
—George Eliot
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
—Iris Murdoch
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
—Harry S. Truman
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
—Charles Kettering
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
—Vincent Van Gogh
You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls
There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
—Jonathan Tropper in One Last Thing Before I Go