Tyron Woodley Quotes

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

When you're dealing with a small community, every person counts.

Forget being an actor-director: we, as citizens, have the responsibility to make the country a better place. And that doesn't mean advertising other people's agendas; it means looking at what is wrong and making it right.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems.

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.