Get Involved Quotes

• When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

  Maya Angelou

  Hope, Honesty, Integrity

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• If you really want to see change, and have change, you're going to have to get involved.

  Cindy McCain

  Want, Involved, Ifs

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Race, People

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• Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

  Robert Breault

  Self, Looks, Want

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• Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

  Plato

  Running, Smart, People

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• Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

  James Brown

  Politics, Involved

  Song: Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved

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• When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pain, Numbness, Guilt

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• It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.

  Walter Munk

  Jobs, Important, Care

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• People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

  Michael Ironside

  People, Share, Given

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.

  Boris Johnson

  Believe, Pride, Opportunity

  Interview with Charlie Kenber, londoncalling.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  Larry Flynt

  Trying, Scandal, Involved

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• God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Suffering, Down And

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• Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Class, Organization

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• There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

  Debi Mazar

  Hero, Passion, Gun

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

  Monica Keena

  Nice, People, Age

  "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Issues, Giving

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• People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Creative, Sparks

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• I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, Father, Space

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• My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Giving, Joy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm too passionate about what I do. I like to get involved.

  Michael J. Bassett

  Passionate, Involved

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Dying, Rooms

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

  Andrew Shue

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

  Bob Davids

  Thinking, Skills, Oil

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