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a Hero for a Better World ... Every Act of Kindness Makes
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ACTION
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If
you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya
Angelou
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If
you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya
Angelou
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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
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The
world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting
for you to hammer it into shape.
-- Bono
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There
is no time left for anything but to make peace work
a dimension of our every waking activity.
-- Elise
Boulding
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
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"For
anything worth having one must pay the price; and
the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice"
~
John
Burroughs
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Do what you can to show you care about other people,
and you will make our world a better place.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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There
is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else
we are going to do, we had better get on with it.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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"There
are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome
the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest
search for understanding, education, organization,
action ... and the kind of commitment that will
persist despite the temptations of disillusionment,
despite many failures and only limited successes,
inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
-- Noam
Chomsky
"There
are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome
the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search
for understanding, education, organization, action that
raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or
that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the
kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations
of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited
successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
-- Noam
Chomsky
We’re
here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids
study history, don’t you want them to be proud that
you were part of the solution?
-- Matt
Damon
Please
find out what you can do to make a difference. Take
five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t
know about before. Then tell somebody else.
-- Matt
Damon
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"...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
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The
self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous
formation through choice of action.
-- John
Dewey
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Our
planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake
up and take action!
~ Leonardo
DiCaprio
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Follow
effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet
reflection will come even more effective action.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
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“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
“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.” -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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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
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When
you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your
whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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You
cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know
how soon it will be too late. -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
It's
time to stand up - not to cheer, but to fight back.
-- Russ
Feingold
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Start
by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Saint
Francis of Assisi
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"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
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Never
leave that till tomorrow
which you can do today.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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“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
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"...ordinary
people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.
~ Richard
Goldman
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Every
individual matters. Every individual has a role to
play. Every individual makes a difference.
~ Jane
Goodall
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Working
for peace in the future is to work for peace in the
present moment.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
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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
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"Never
put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
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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
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Do
you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action
will delineate and define you. ~ Thomas
Jefferson
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It
is wonderful how much may be done if we are always
doing. ~ Thomas
Jefferson
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Come,
then, let us go forward together with our united strength
- and win a better future for generations to come.
-- Van
Jones
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“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
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I
long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it
is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though
they were great and noble. The world is moved along,
not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also
by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest
worker.
-- Helen
Keller
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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
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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
“We have been too quiet for too long. There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise. You have to move your feet. This is the time.” -- John R. Lewis
“When
you see something that is not right, not just, not fair,
you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something."
-- John R. Lewis
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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
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"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
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“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
"If
something is important enough, even if the odds are
against you, you should still do it. "
-- Elon
Musk
"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)
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If
you don't like the road you're walking, start paving
another one. --
Dolly
Parton
It's
always too early to quit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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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
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Great
thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great
actions speak to all mankind.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
Act
up. Be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what
you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're
the ones to do it...Like no other generation, you
actually get to create the world that you can imagine...
-- Mark
Ruffalo
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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
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Every
person is the right person to act. Every moment is the
right moment to begin.
-- Jonathan
Schell
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
-- Dr. Seuss
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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
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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
"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
Too
many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our
powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us
off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board;
we don't need one magic person in office; we need
ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.
-- Rebecca
Solnit
facebook.com/WorleyDervish
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Each
of us has the ability to act powerfully for change;
together we can restore that ancient and sustaining
harmony.
-- David
Suzuki
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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
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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
"There
are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as
they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them."
-- Denis Waitley
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A
life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
~ Neale
Donald Walsch
"It's
so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else
you could do before you try the thing you really want
to do. No. Just get out there and try."
~ Elizabeth
Warren
Facebook.com/runwarrenrun2016
"The
game is rigged. We can whimper, we can whine, or we
can fight back. Me? I'm fighting back."
~ Elizabeth
Warren
Facebook.com/runwarrenrun2016
"We
can choose to be a country that lives up to Dr. King's
dreams...and we can fight to make those dreams a reality."
~ Elizabeth
Warren
Facebook.com/runwarrenrun2016
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I
believe that any man's life will be filled with constant
and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind
to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible
reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
-- Booker
T. Washington
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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
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Doing
the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.
--
Oprah
Winfrey
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Doing
the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.
--
Oprah
Winfrey
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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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If
you join a fight for social justice you may win or
lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you
win, and your life will be better for it.
-- Howard
Zinn
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