Helen Prejean Quotes

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.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

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 now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

Be a doer, not a stewer.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Be a doer and not a critic.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I believe you have to make things happen.

We live in a world where action is what counts.