Quotes that Inspire

We aren’t passengers on Spaceship Earth, we’re the crew.  We aren’t residents on this planet, we’re citizens.  The difference in both cases is responsibility.
Apollo Astronaut Rusty Schweikart

Be outrageous, it’s the only place that isn’t crowded.
Anonymous

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to eliminate hunger.  Yet we have found the will to develop missiles, capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target.  This is not innovation.  It is a profound distortion of humanity’s purpose on earth.
Republican Senator Mark Hatfield

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy with a large population of people who think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. What’s really radical is being willing to look right at the magnitude and difficulty of the problems we face and still insist that we can solve those problems.
Alex Steffen

The things to do are the things that need doing.  That you see need to be done and that no one else seems to see needs to be done.
Buckminster Fuller

Amidst the glut of insignificance that engulfs us all, the temptation is understandable to stop thinking.  The trouble is unthinking persons cannot choose but must let others choose for them.  But to fail to make  one’s own choices is to betray the freedom which is our society’s greatest gift to us all.
Steven Muller, former President, Johns Hopkins University

Governments can be counted on to do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Israeli diplomat Abba Eban

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of nature, instead of a selfish, feverish little clod of ailments and  grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman