LeToya Luckett Quotes

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

If I can inspire one person to actually administer change, to want to inspire change, I will follow that person.

I think I'm a better person because of my family.