Quotes by Jody Williams

Jody Williams

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

Action

Emotion

Irrelevant

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Differences

Extraordinary Person

Titles

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Acceptance

Tolerance

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Believe

Spiritual

Worry

I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Circles

Mother

Thinking

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

Ass

Making Changes

Want

It’s sort of easy to make a challenge. It’s very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That’s real leadership.

Leadership

Real

Women

Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where peace is valued, we must teach ourselves to believe that peace is not a ‘utopian vision’ but a real responsibility that must be worked for each and every day in small and large ways. Any one of us can contribute to building a world where peace and justice prevail.

Believe

Real

War

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian – a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal… once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

Children

Differences

Grandmother

This victory is in large part due to the Internet… For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Politics

Victory

World

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Acceptance

Action

Ass

Belief

Believe

Children

Circles

Differences

Emotion

Extraordinary

Extraordinary Person

Government

Grandmother

Inspiration

Irrelevant

Leadership

Making Changes

Mother

Motivation

One Day

Ordinary

People

Politics

Problem

Real

Spiritual

Strategy

Teamwork

Thinking

Titles

Together

Tolerance

Victory

Voice

Want

War

Women

World

Worry

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Quotes by Jody Williams

Jody Williams

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

It’s sort of easy to make a challenge. It’s very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That’s real leadership.

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian – a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal… once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet… For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

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