Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

My personal view is, why don't you get out there and try to do something about the things that you don't like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream. But if you want to yell and scream, we'll make sure you can do it.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.