David Vitter Quotes

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

I'm into people, especially kids and making sure they have a fair shake and making sure they reach their potential. So that's important to me.

I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Kids may only be 25 percent of our population but they are 100 percent of our future.

For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.

My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I'd be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.