A 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 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 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 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 CarterMy greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?
Rosalynn Carter