Individual Action Quotes

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.

Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.

I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Stop the few from rioting on the labors of the many.

The world will not change until we do

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

It is for Parliament to decide whether or not we should participate in wars in different parts of the world, and it is neither right nor proper for any individual, for any group of individuals, to take any step which in any way might limit the rights of Parliament in a matter which is of such great concern to all of the people ...