Joyce Banda Quotes

We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.

Young people are our future, and I always want to help them to grow.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

I'm trying to create a better pathway for the next generation.

It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.