First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.
ROSALYNN CARTERFirst ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.
ROSALYNN CARTERDo what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
ROSALYNN CARTERIf we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.
ROSALYNN CARTERThere is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.
ROSALYNN CARTERYou must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
ROSALYNN CARTERIf you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
ROSALYNN CARTEROnce you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
ROSALYNN CARTERThere is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
ROSALYNN CARTERA leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
ROSALYNN CARTERIf you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It’s so sad. We know what to do. We just don’t do it.
ROSALYNN CARTERKindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.
ROSALYNN CARTERWithout volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.
ROSALYNN CARTERDon’t worry about polls, but if you do, don’t admit it.
ROSALYNN CARTERI had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
ROSALYNN CARTERI believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.
ROSALYNN CARTERTimes of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.
ROSALYNN CARTER