Mark Parker Quotes

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.

Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Take actions that will give people hope.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

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.