Action Quotes

"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."

"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."

"For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected."

"I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy."

"Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans."

"My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize."

"You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that."

"When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not."

"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."

"Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest."

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."

"The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are."

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."

"The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Here I stand. I can do no other."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."