Lily Tomlin Quotes

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

The worst thing you can do is sit there and do nothing, right?

I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

All I can control is what I do when I step on the floor.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

I always go back to the fact that one man can make a difference. No matter what the issue, we always have the power to change it.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.