Rick Warren Quotes

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

I believe this country is in real trouble, and it's up to us, to fix it before its too late.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Recently, I was giving a speech and I said that it's time for many of us to "go home." Not necessarily to move back home but rather to go back to our communities and support those outreach programs and those people who could use our assistance.

I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."

Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children

It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.