Laura Osnes Quotes

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.

I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.

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 blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In all of our actions, we must seek to be living examples of the changes we wish to see in the world. By walking the path, we make the path visible.

I think, for me, I've realized the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywhere.

I try to be a good role model for my son, my family, my friends, and then I try to be a good role model for the rest of the people, too.

I hope to be an example for all. I hope.

There's just so much I want to do in life. Part of that is to use my story and use my experiences to give back to other people.