Ann Richards Quotes

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

You must know what you are capable of.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Well, I like empowering my clients.

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.