Yoko Ono Quotes

I get up each and every day trying to do my level best to make Victoria a better place.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.

Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.

Motivation comes from effort.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.

The goal is progress, not perfection!

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way.

Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.