Ann Richards Quotes

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Leadership is service to others.

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family.

At our best, we are all teachers

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

I touch the future. I teach.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.