Action Quotes

"I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now."

"When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled."

"The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for."

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."

"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"

"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."

"If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life."

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

"Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need."

"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."

"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health."

"When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do."

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."