Bob Filner Quotes

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Unless we make the change ourselves, nothing is going to change.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

I believe you have to make things happen.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.

I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

It is for your good, consider, that we publish this little journal. Sleep no more. It is time, wake up. No one is there to speak for you.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

Take destiny in your own hands.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

You have to make your own destiny.

Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.

Let me be the one To do what is done.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.