Margaret Haddix Quotes

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

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

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

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

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

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

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

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

We live in a world where action is what counts.