Hubert Humphrey Quotes

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

The point of the essay is to change things.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

I'm trying to change the world.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

Change is realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 20th step.

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

I want to lead. I want to change. And I'm going to do it.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

I'm running because we need change.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Reform is not a period of retreat.