If Not Me Who If Not Now When Quotes

#1. IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

Emma Watson

#2. Schoolgirls are not distractions.
They are students.
Teach them something other than misogyny.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#3. Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

Rumi

#4. This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Mick Ebeling

#5. If not now then when, if not me then who?

Malcolm X

#6. So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#7. I have certainly faced my fair share and will likely come across more. These experiences have been fuel for my music. Facing these challenges has forced me to recognize my own inner strength.

Wendy Starland

#8. If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Mikhail Gorbachev

#9. If I'm not for myself, who will be for me?
If not this way, how? If not now, when?

Primo Levi

#10. When two lovers discover a language of their own.

Saleem Sharma

#11. If not me, who?
If not now, when?

Emma Watson

#12. Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mason Cooley

#13. There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

Clarice Lispector

#14. The future ours for a while to hold, with its heaviness
and hope moving from one location to another
like the holy ghost that it is.

Tony Hoagland

#15. Today is the day I stand tall, strong, and mighty to tell the world who I am.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#16. If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

#17. The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering through the stones, rippling through the water. That marsh beast that had snuck up on her last night was the mildest of the horrors here.

Sarah J. Maas

#18. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

Pirkei Avot

#19. The landings were dirty and the walls were bare. This stairway brought me into the balcony, and I sat there in the dark, thinking that nothing now was going to save me, that no pretty girl with new shoes was going to cross my path in time.

John Cheever

#20. One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

Robert De Niro

#21. When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.

John A. Macdougall

#22. Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

Kahlil Gibran

#23. I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

Michael Eric Dyson

#24. I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

Alan Alda