Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

People have to do what they want to do.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I'll be happy.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.

I do what I like to do.

I like having the space of my own project.

I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.