* 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

* 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

* 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

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

"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

* 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

* 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

* 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