"Don't spend your precious time asking "Why..." - Quote by Leo Buscaglia
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
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“No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.”
“He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.”
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
More on Action
“In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.”
“What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!”
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.”
More on Responsibility
“Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.”
“It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.”
“For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.”