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Top 10 Quotes That Make You Want To DO Something

Top 10 Quotes That Make You Want To DO Something

1. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead

2. 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.  -Edmund Everett Hale

3. Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world. -President John F. Kennedy

4. You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

5. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank

6. I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.  -Lily Tomlin

7. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.  We can do no great things, only small things with great love.  -Mother Teresa

8. There is no road, the road is made by walking. -Antonio Machado

9. In order to motivate others, you must first become a source of motivation by yourself. It simply means that if you want to get anything done through others, you must first do it yourself.  -Hazrat Ilyas Attar Qadri

10. When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.  -Bono