Caroline Kennedy Quotes

Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

A word of Encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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

You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

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.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Young people need models, not critics.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

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

My drama teacher when I was a kid called me 'Zawe the activist' and I had no idea why. Now I've got older I can see why she always saw that in me.

That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.

I can see that I can be a role model.

You want to help people and make the world a better place in whatever way you can. I've tried to share the things I've learned, and for me it really is all about being a role model.

Klopp gave me strength of character and helped me progress. He's a charismatic person, and I have a lot of respect for this man.

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.