Quotes About Involvement

This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

One need not become a candidate (though that's certainly an option worth considering) or a political addict hooked on every twist and every turn and every tweet. But the paying of attention, the expressing of opinion, and the casting of ballots are foundational to living up to the obligations of citizenship in a republic.

Theodore Roosevelt put it best: "The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics; his second duty is that he shall do that work in a practical manner; and his third is that it shall be done in accord with the highest principles of honor and justice.

Man Ã¢â'¬Â¦ feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.

It's possible you can't afford to care, but it's certain you can't afford not to care.

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come find you; you have to go to them sometimes.

The world is full of people who smirk on the sidelines. I'd much rather be a cheerleader.

I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' The Social Round. Always something going on.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

There were always sides to one committee—those who planned, those who planned and executed, and those who talked—that is, complained.

This pattern tells the client that his friends are involved in personal wars and disputes. He may get caught in the middle of several disagreements. Here, there is danger: His friends, relatives, and acquaintances might all tell him lies or half truths, hoping to make him take sides. In all patterns of Ogundá, the number three is a danger. There are two sides to every disagreement, but if the client gets involved, he creates a threesome. He must refuse to be involved

Decisions are made by those who show up

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.