Bill Drayton Quotes

We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.

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

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

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

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

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.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

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

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

Either move or be moved.

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.