Marcy Kaptur Quotes

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

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.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

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

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

You can talk about what’s wrong with the world or help fix it.

We just can’t be the party of NO. We have to be the party of solutions.

I always look at the worst situations and try and figure out how I can make them better. Let today's garbage be better than yesterday's, is my motto.

I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

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

You can make a million excuses for why something didn't go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.

It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.

The reason we are here is thinking, 'What can we do to make this club a better club?' I don't want the guys to think about what the club can do for them.

My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal with things as they are because crying about it isn't going to change anything.

There is always something we can be concerned about. The secret is to rise above it and do whatever we can to make the world a better place.

I'm a big believer that if you want things to change you have to embody that change.

You can't live in the past and say, 'if only.' You have to pick up and move along and make the world better.

When you do your part, life just unfolds in ways that are so much better than you would have dreamed up on your own.