If you are not
part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.
Start by doing
the necessary, then the possible and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.
Change your
thoughts and you change your world.
Do what you
can with what you have where you are.
Take the first
step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the
first step.
The
people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.
I
am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse
to do something I can do.
Even if I knew
that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my
apple tree.
Si, Se Puede!
(Yes, we are able!)
All things are
difficult before they are easy.
How wonderful
it is that nobody need to wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world.
A good thing
to remember, and a better thing to do... is work with the construction
gang and not the wrecking crew.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The beginning
is the most important part of the work.
Small
opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Whatever you
do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Change happens at the level of the individual
Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
We are designed for Giving
It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life
when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass.
It's about learning how to dance in the rain!