Demetri Martin Quotes

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

It is one thing to tell people in theory that you can be whatever you want to be, but it is another thing to tell someone that they can be whatever they wanted to be because somebody that is just like you did it.

As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.

I just feel like I have a chance to be a role model now.

How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

When I mentor girls, I'll go around the room and ask them what they want to be or do. I've heard so many kids say, 'I don't want to be anything,' which is really shocking, but it's because no one has sat down and asked them.

Young kids get motivated by everything. If they see a great dancer, some of them would want to become a dancer. If they see a great soccer player, they want to become a soccer player.

Some people shun the idea of role models but I think it's one of the most important things people have in life - role models, to look up to.

If you listen only to those around you, the chances of your dreams coming true are very small.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, "Yes, someone like me can do this."

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.