George Jackson Quotes

It is always your next move.

You have to follow that next step.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

It is not the critic who counts

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

Either I act or I die.

I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.