Mike Colter Quotes

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

You have to step up when your number is called.

Tom Clarke is dead. He has not our responsibilities. Nobody will ever know what he would do for the situation did not arise for him. But is has risen for us and we must face it with our intelligence and conscious of our responsibility.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

The people who think it a shame when anything goes wrong—who rush to the conclusion that evil could or ought to have been prevented, are those who, in the long run, do most to make the world better.

Were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority.

Whoever can, should.

Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

I've always believed that talking about something is not the same as doing something about it.

I really believe, if I learned anything in the military, it was that I was accountable for my actions and I like to be part of the team that kind of brings that back to Washington, D.C. - not just responsibility, but accountability and being ready to lose my job over doing what's right.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

I do what I can do to help my defense.

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.