Dave Eggers Quotes

Awareness without action is worthless.

I’m not a seat warmer. I want to get in there and make a difference.

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

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.

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

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

It's one thing to speak about it and another to actually do something about it.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

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

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Action is character.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.