Quotes by Rosalynn Carter

“If you dont accept failure as a possibility, you dont set high goals, you dont branch out, you dont try -- you dont take the risk.”

“God gave you two legs to walk,two hands to hold,two eyes to see,two ears to hear.....BUT why did he gave you just one heart?BECAUSE he gave the other one to someone for you to find!!”

“...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.”

“It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.”

“You know youve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.”

“If 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 conqu”

“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.”

“Dont worry about polls, but if you do, dont admit it.”

“You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still dont win, at least you can be satisfied that youve tried.”

“Informed journalists can have a significant impact on public understanding of mental health issues, as they shape debate and trends with the words and pictures they convey, ... They influence their peers and stimulate discussion among the general public, and an informed public can reduce stigma and discrimination.”

“There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to the future. Where could our lives possibly be as meaningful as they might have been in the White House?”

“There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.”

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they dont necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you cant accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

If you dont accept failure as a possibility you dont set high goals you dont branch out you dont try - you dont take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still dont win at least you can be satisfied that youve tried.

Jimmy and I were always partners.

I 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.

If 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.

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.