Bob Riley Quotes

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

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.