Bill Bryson Quotes

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

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

Be a doer and not a critic.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

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

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.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Action is eloquence

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

You don't have to be something to do something.

We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.